Additional information

Title

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Original Title

Sen noci svatojánské

Year

1959

Runtime

1 Hour 16 Min

Directors

Jirí Trnka

Writers

Jirí Brdecka, Josef Kainar, Howard Sackler

Stars

Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton

IMDb Rating

7.2

Keywords

greece, theseus the greek hero, literature on screen, european literature on screen, british literature on screen

Country

Czechoslovakia

Language

Czech

Subtitles

English

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959)

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 Jirí Trnka’s work and a miles… Read all

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