A Midsummer Night's Dream
Directed by	Jiří Trnka
Produced by	Erna Kmínková Jaroslav Mozis
Written by	Screenplay: Jiří Brdecka Josef Kainar Jiří Trnka Play: William Shakespeare
Narrated by	Rudolf Pellar
Cinematography	Jiří Vojta
Editing by	Hanna Valachova
Release date(s)	Czechoslovakia: 25 September 1959 United States: 18 December 1961
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Czech: Sen noci svatojánské) is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] An English-language dubbed version was made with narration by Richard Burton.

The film won several awards including the Prize of the Technical Committee in Cannes and an Honourable Medal at the Venice Film Festival.^[2]

[edit] See also

• Shakespeare on screen
• Richard Burton filmography

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Internet Movie Database

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