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: Miloš Makovec, Jiří Trnka
- Cast: Helena Patočková, Jaromír Sobota, Boris Karloff