The Emperor's Nightingale
- IMDb link: 0043410
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (494 votes) Search
- Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Family
- Director: Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec
- Cast: Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna, Boris Karloff and others
- Release date: 15 Apr 1949
- Release year: 1949
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Keywords: psychotronic film, literature on screen, european literature on screen, danish literature on screen, 19th century literature on screen, children's literature on screen, fantasy literature on screen, danish children's literature on screen, danish fantasy literature on screen, czech adaptation of danish source material
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A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.
One of Jiri Trnka's full-length pictures, it is based upon Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tale. It is a story of a Chinese emperor that, because of a beautiful toy-nightingale, forgets about the song of a real, live nightingale that comforted him in his solitude. Trnka unconditionally backs the live art's side. The picture has strong ethical components, and it has been admired by many. It is also famous for the extraordinary music composed by Vaclav Trojan.
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