A Midsummer's Night Dream

The story

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.

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• #costume drama
• #medieval europe
• #based on play or musical
• #3d animation
• #stop motion animation
• #medieval times
• #stop motion
• #european fantasy
• #period drama
• #czech fantasy
• #czech animation