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.
Genres: Animation , Comedy , Fantasy
Keywords: based-on-play-or-musical , stop-motion , 3d-animation , costume-drama , czech-animation , czech-fantasy , european-animation , european-fantasy , medieval-europe , medieval-times , period-drama , stop-motion-animation