The Emperor's Nightingale

(1949)

★ 5.6 IMDb · 17 votes

Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Year: 1949

Runtime: 72 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Trnka, Miloš Makovec

Cast: Helena Patočková, Jaromír Sobota

Plot

Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.