A Midsummer Night's Dream

IMDb link: 0053261
IMDb rating: 7.1 (534 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Animation, Romance
Director: Richard Burton, Jirí Trnka
Cast: Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Tom Criddle and others

Release date: 25 Sep 1959
Release year: 1959
Runtime: 76 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Keywords: greece, literature on screen, european literature on screen, british literature on screen, 16th century literature on screen, fantasy literature on screen, humoristic literature on screen, british fantasy literature on screen, british humoristic literature on screen, athens greece

Plot:

The first puppet kinescope in the world. 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 Jiri Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.

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