A Midsummer's Night Dream

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.

• based on play or musical
• stop motion
• period drama
• costume drama
• european animation
• 3d animation
• medieval times
• stop motion animation
• czech animation
• czech fantasy
• european fantasy
• medieval europe