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
Release dates	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 animated film directed by Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec. The film is based on the fairy tale The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Boris Karloff provides the voice of the narrator in an American dubbed version.^[1] The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

Helena Patočková as the girl
Jaromír Sobota as the boy
Dětský pěvecký sbor Jana Kuhna as chorus

References

↑ Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomohawk Press 2011 p 353
↑ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Retrieved 2012-08-12.

External links

The Emperor's Nightingale at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Jiří Trnka

Springman and the SS The Czech Year The Emperor's Nightingale Prince Bayaya Old Czech Legends The Good Soldier Schweik A Midsummer Night's Dream The Hand

Golden Leopard winning films

1940s–1950s	And Then There Were None (1946) Man About Town (1947) Germany, Year Zero (1948) The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) Hunted (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) The Composer Glinka (1953) The Glass Wall (1953) Prince Bayaya (1954) Gate of Hell (1954) Wild Fruit (1954) Rotation (1954) The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) Carmen Jones (1955) The Emperor's Nightingale (1955) Il Grido (1957) Ten North Frederick (1958) Killer's Kiss (1959)

1960s–1970s	Il bell'Antonio (1960) Fires on the Plain (1961) The Winner (1962) Transport from Paradise (1963) Black Peter (1964) Four in the Morning (1965) Courage for Every Day (1966) Entranced Earth (1967) The Visionaries (1968) Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) Those Who Wear Glasses (1969) Three Sad Tigers (1969) No Path Through Fire (1969) Lilika (1970) Mujo (1970) Soleil O (1970) End of the Road (1970) On the Point of Death (1971) They Have Changed Their Face (1971) The Friends (1971) Private Road (1971) Znaki na drodze (1971) Bleak Moments (1972) The Illumination (1973) Tüzolto Utca 25 (1974) The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975) The Big Night (1976) Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978) The Herd (1979)

1980s–1990s	To Love the Damned (1980) Chakra (1981) Adj király katonát! (1983) Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Alpine Fire (1985) Jezioro Bodenskie (1986) O Bobo (1987) Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Schmetterlinge (1988) Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989) Accidental Waltz (1990) Johnny Suede (1991) Autumn Moon (1992) Azghyin ushtykzyn'azaby (1993) Khomreh (1994) Raï (1995) Nénette et Boni (1996) The Mirror (1997) Mr. Zhao (1998) Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (1999)

2000s–2010s	Father (2000) Off to the Revolution by a 2CV (2001) The Longing (2002) Khamosh Pani (2003) Private (2004) Nine Lives (2005) Das Fräulein (2006) The Rebirth (2007) Parque via (2008) She, a Chinese (2009) Winter Vacation (2010) Back to Stay (2011) The Girl from Nowhere (2012) Story of My Death (2013) From What Is Before (2014) Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)

Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale (1843)

Adaptations	The Nightingale (1914 opera) Le chant du rossignol (1917 poem/ballet) The Emperor's Nightingale (1949 film) Nightingale (1982 musical)

Other	The Nightingale casting controversy

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The Emperor's Nightingale

Cast

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