Le Songe d'une nuit d'été

Titre original : A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935
Approved
2h 13m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

4 k

MA NOTE

Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest.Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

Liretrailer2 min 12 s

1 vidéo

71 photos

Comedy Fantasy Romance

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Directors
- William Dieterle
- Max Reinhardt
Writers
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,8/10

4 k

MA NOTE

Directors
- William Dieterle
- Max Reinhardt
Writers
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

A remporté 2 oscars
- 2 victoires et 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
When the forest that Max Reinhardt designed could not be lit properly, cinematographer Hal Mohr thinned the trees slightly, sprayed them with aluminum paint and covered them with cobwebs and tiny metal particles to reflect the light. As a result, he became the first (and only) write-in winner of an Academy Award.

Gaffes
Corrective lenses were introduced in the 13th century so they could have been worn in Shakespeare's time.

Citations
Hermia, in Love with Lysander: [to Helena] How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!

Générique farfelu
The opening credits appear as if they were "trickling down" from the top of the screen.

Autres versions
The original 132-minute roadshow version of this film has been restored, shown on cable, and issued on videocassette and DVD. For many years, though, this film was shown only in its general release version, a 117-minute version painstakingly edited by the studio (so that the cuts would not be noticeable), which shifted the order of some sequences and eliminated others.The 2007 DVD release also restores the Intermission title card, not seen since the film's original roadshow release in 1935, as well as including the overture and exit music.

Connexions
Featured in A Dream Comes True (1935)

Bandes originales
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture and Incidental Music
(1826) (uncredited)
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Adapted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Heard throughout the film

Commentaires des utilisateurs74

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Commentaire en vedette

10/10

You will believe in fairies

I came across this movie one rainy afternoon on TV. Jimmy Cagney doing Shakespeare? Surely not! My expectations were, frankly, low. We English are a bit funny about Shakespeare, as you can imagine, and the thought of the dirty rat as one of the bard's greatest comic creations was worrying, to say the least. The whole film is, however, magical. I laughed out loud at the wall joke, even though I knew what was coming, and Roony's Puck was, as another contributor says, probably his best performance. Bottom's realisation that he is now the proud possessor of an ass's head is quite affecting. It's Titania's fairies, though, that make this such a wonderful experience. I have seen this a couple of times since that rainy afternoon, and am always convinced that it will not live up to my expectations. It always does, though. The sheer beauty of the scene where the fairies awake is, as we say over here, gob-smacking. I am sure that this could never be done with such picturesque quality in colour. I had this on tape for a long time, and then I lent it to some eejit who erased it. I scan the listings every week to see if it's on TV, and when it is I shall make sure that it never leaves my possession.