Overview
The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized in a theatrically stylized set built in the Barrandov studios. The original ballet music by Václav Trojan, based on Shakespeare's fairy tale comedy, was preceded by incidental music for theatre and radio, and in particular the soundtrack to Jiří Trnka's feature-length puppet film A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Cast
- Jiří Kyselák as Theseus
- Dagmar Maštalířová as Hippolyta
- Lubomír Večeřa as Lysandr
- Soňa Zejdová as Hermie
- Zdeněk Kárný as Demetrius
- Eva Trnková as Helena
- Zdeněk Hanzlovský as Oberon
- Jarmila Bařinková as Titanie
- Antonín Michna as Puk
- Milan Potůček as Klubko / Hejkal