Learning on ScreenSen Noci Svatojanske
- Alternative title
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, A
- Synopsis
- Trnka’s puppet pantomime, based on Shakespeare’s play, with dubbed-in English voices.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1958
- Duration
- 74 mins
Credits
- Director
- Jiri Trnka
- Producer
- Jiri Trnka
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Screenplay
- Jiri Trnka
- Contributor
- Richard Burton
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Other
- Plays
- Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Puppets
Notes
- History
- Shown at the 1959 London Film Festival. First shown in the English dialogue version in New York City at the Guild Theatre on 18 December 1961.
- Textual information
- This English version language version made in 1971 was presented by American producer Howard Sackler and voiced by Richard Burton, is six minutes shorter. The Czech version is narrated by R. Pelar.
- Reviews
- Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 223, entry 922). [Lanier gives a detailed account of the film concluding a’ beautiful film that deserves a wider audience’].
The Czechoslovak Film v.10, n6/7 (I June 1957).
Production Company
- Name
Czech State Film
Archive
- Name
Arts Institute-Theatre Institute
- info@institutumeni.cz
- Web
- http://institute.theatre.cz External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 224 809 123
- Fax
- 224 809 123
- Address
- Celetna 17
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
- Name
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
- Web
- http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (20) 707-8572
- Fax
- (20) 707-237’1
- Address
- Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States
Distributor (Hire)
- Name
BFI Film Bookings Unit
- bookings.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/help-faq/film-bookings External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8938 / 8935
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
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