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A Christmas Dream

Original title: Vánocní sen
  • 1946
  • 8m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
626
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A Christmas Dream (1946)
Stop Motion AnimationAnimationFamilyShort

Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts... Read allChristmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or isn't it a dream...Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or isn't it a dream...

  • Directors
    • Borivoj Zeman
    • Karel Zeman
  • Writer
    • Karel Zeman
  • Star
    • Jana Hrdlicková
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    626
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Borivoj Zeman
      • Karel Zeman
    • Writer
      • Karel Zeman
    • Star
      • Jana Hrdlicková
    • 5User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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      • Karel Zeman
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      • Karel Zeman
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    • Trivia
      This film by Karel Zeman became the first to win the award for Best Animated Short at the first annual Cannes Film Festival.
    • Goofs
      The copyright year (1946) in Roman numerals MCMXLX is wrong. It should be MCMXLI.
    • Connections
      Edited into Retro Christmas Classics (2007)

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    5/10

    Most if not all people who have viewed . . .

    . . . this picture in the Civilized World have watched it under the title of A CHRISTMAS DREAM, on a DVD called 28 Christmas Cartoons. However, A CHRISTMAS DREAM is neither a dream nor an animated short. It is an irrational nightmare for any modern populace with a sense of logical thought, featuring low-quality live-action sequences interspersed with crude attempts at a puppet show. American law requires all purchasers of 28 Christmas Cartoons to get ten times their money back for egregious violations of the Truth in Advertising Act. So if you paid a quarter for this falsely billed refuse at a neighborhood yard sale, you should march right down to the clueless miscreant who filched your two bits and forcibly demand the $2.50 refund to which you're entitled.
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    • Oct 15, 2023
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    • Release date
      • 1949 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Czechoslovakia
    • Language
      • Czech
    • Also known as
      • The Christmas Dream
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    • Runtime
      8 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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