A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
- Original title
- Sen noci svatojánské
- Directed by
- Jiří Trnka
- Genre
- comedy film, animated film, romance film, puppet film
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This animated puppet film adapts Shakespeare's comedy about lovers and fairies in a magical forest. Mistaken identities and magical spells cause chaos among the characters before everything is resolved.
whimsicaldreamlikeplayfullyricalvisually lushromanticlighthearted
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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