The Emperor's Nightingale
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.
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Actors: Helena Patočková, Jaromír Sobota, Boris Karloff
Director: Jiří Trnka
Country: Czechoslovakia
