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The Emperor's Nightingale
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Plot
Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.
Writer | Vítězslav Nezval |
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Director | Jiří Trnka & Miloš Makovec |
Actor | Helena Patočková, Jaromír Sobota, Boris Karloff |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Production | Loutkový film Praha |