A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
1h 16m
Running Time
September 25, 1959Release Date
A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
1h 16m
Running Time
September 25, 1959Release Date
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 Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
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Cast & Crew.

Rudolf Pellar
Narrator (voice)

Jiří Trnka
Director / Art Designer / Screenplay

Joss Ackland
Quince

Ann Bell
Hermia

Hana Walachová
Editor

Václav Trojan
Original Music Composer

Richard Burton
Narrator

Emanuel Formánek
Sound

Jaroslav Kulhánek
Sculptor

Jean Desailly
Récitant

Jiří Vojta
Director of Photography

Laura Graham
Hippolyta

Josef Vlček
Sound

Stanislav Látal
Animation

Jack Gwillim
Oberon

Břetislav Pojar
Animation

Barbara Jefford
Titania

Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Helena

Jan Adam
Animation

Hugh Manning
Theseus

Vlasta Pospíšilová
Animation

Ladislav Fialka
Choreographer

Jiří Brdečka
Writer

Bohuslav Šrámek
Animation

Emil Poledník
Sound

Jiří Horčička
Sound Effects

Howard Sackler
Writer

Jan Karpaš
Animation

Josef Kainar
Screenplay

Jaroslav Možíš
Production Manager

Karel Ančerl
Conductor

Ludmila Kovářová
Choreographer
Media.






Details.
Release DateSeptember 25, 1959
Original NameSen noci svatojánské
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 16m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
stop motion
based on play or musical
Wiki.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Czech: Sen noci svatojánské) is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka, his last feature length film before his death 10 years later in 1969. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name.
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