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A Midsummer's Night Dream

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Release Date: September 25, 1959
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Comedy
Duration: 1h 16m
Rating: 7.1/10
Director: Jiří Trnka
Cast: Rudolf Pellar

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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.