The film captures the extraordinary creative commitment of the production team and the thrilling atmosphere of the making of Jiří Trnka's puppet film A Midsummer Night's Dream. It follows a two-year period of hard work, made more difficult by the decision to shoot in the widescreen format (until then unseen in puppet film) and with the use of new negative raw material and puppet material. It was released in cinemas several months before Trnka's opus as the herald of its uniqueness.
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
A Midsummer Night's Reality
film
documentarytheatrical distribution
reportage
Czechoslovakia
1959
1959
projection approval 6 May 1959
premiere 24 July 1959 /suitable for youths/ (kino Praha, Praha)
renewed premiere 20 January 2000 /suitable for all ages/ (kino Lucerna, Praha)
no caption (1959) / no caption (2000)
Ministerstvo kultury České republiky (obnovená distribuce 2000), Státní fond České republiky pro podporu a rozvoj české kinematografie (obnovená distribuce 2000)
Ústřední půjčovna filmů (původní 1959), Asociace českých filmových klubů (obnovená 2000 /Projekt 100 – 2000/), Národní filmový archiv (obnovená 2000)
short film
6 min
181 meters
16mm, 35mm
puppet, combined (technique), documentary
1:1,37
colour
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, commentary
without subtitles
Czech
