The Emperor's Nightingale
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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.
- Year : 1949
- Country : Czechoslovakia
- Genre : Animation, Family, Fantasy
- Studio : Loutkový film Praha
- Keyword : stop motion, based on children's book
- Director : Jiří Trnka, Miloš Makovec
- Cast : Helena Patočková, Jaromír Sobota, Boris Karloff