A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
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.
- Release Date: 1959-09-25
- Runtime: 1h 16min
- Production Company: Krátký film Praha – Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu Praha
- Production Country: Czechoslovakia
- Director: Jiří Trnka
- Writers: Jiří Trnka, Josef Kainar.
