A Midsummer's Night Dream

(1959)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 19 votes

Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Comedy

Year: 1959

Runtime: 76 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Trnka

Cast: Rudolf Pellar

Plot

The first puppet film shot in CinemaScope. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.