The Emperor's Nightingale

The Emperor's Nightingale
Directed by	Jiří Trnka Miloš Makovec
Written by	Vítězslav Nezval Hans Christian Andersen Jiří Brdečka Jiří Trnka
Starring	Helena Patockova Jaromir Sobotoa Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna
Cinematography	Ferdinand Pecenka
Edited by	Helena Lebdusková Jiří Trnka
Music by	Václav Trojan
Release date	15 April 1949 (1949-04-15)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

The Emperor's Nightingale (Czech: Císařův slavík) is a 1949 Czechoslovak stop-motion animated film directed by Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec. The film is based on the 1843 fairy tale "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen. Boris Karloff provides the voice of the narrator in the 1951 American dubbed version.^[1] The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.^[2]

In the film, a live-action boy dreams that his toys are real. The toys come to life in stop-motion animation, and tell the story of a Chinese emperor who makes friends with a nightingale.^[3]

Cast

• Helena Patočková as the girl
• Jaromír Sobota as the boy
• Dětský pěvecký sbor Jana Kuhna as chorus
• Boris Karloff - Narrator in English language version only

See also

• Boris Karloff filmography
• List of Czech films
• Jiří Trnka

References

1. Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press 2011 p 353
2. "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
3. Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.

External links

• The Emperor's Nightingale at IMDb