A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959 · 76 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 503 VOTES · DIR. Jiří Trnka
Overview
The first puppet kinescope in the world. 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.
Dialogue Timeline — 289 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:19 Czechoslovakian Film presents
00:01:24 ...love had to fight
00:04:01 Egeus, Hermia's father,...
00:05:38 ...is a handsome young man and is very famous.
00:07:44 ...but always...
00:09:05 ...so all-consuming is her obsession.
00:11:34 The hero has great responsibility.
00:14:19 ...whose love everyone opposed.
00:16:29 A joker, witty,...
00:19:32 But everything has its limits.
00:23:45 ...carry out his plan in peace.
00:25:28 He's looking for a fight with Hermia and Lysander.
00:26:26 ...so that he falls in love with the fair Helena...
00:27:49 ...for Titania to sleep.
00:36:20 And when the Fairies fell asleep,...
00:41:23 Now they've both fallen for Helena...
00:42:58 Puck, fix what you've broken!
00:52:43 Lysander with Hermia,...
00:56:46 It's magnificent, and I wrote it myself.
01:00:48 and was so smug.
01:05:15 Pyramus!
01:11:26 By God, anybody would think...
01:13:59 Music: Václav Trojan
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed289
Dialogue density3.8 lines / min
First line00:00:19
Final line01:13:59
Production Record
DirectorJiří Trnka
LanguageCS
IMDb votes503