A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) on Netflix
PG-1319991h 56mComedyFantasyRomance
Hermia loves Lysander, but her father has promised her to Demetrius. The pair plan to flee into the forest, where the fairy king and queen are quarreling over a servant boy.
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Plot summary
In 1890s Italy, the town of Monte Athena prepares for the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta. Hermia's father Egeus asks the Duke to enforce his promise of Hermia's hand to Demetrius, and Theseus gives her four days to marry Demetrius, enter a convent or die. Hermia and Lysander, forbidden to wed, agree to slip away into the forest, and Hermia tells her friend Helena. Helena loves Demetrius and passes the plan on to him, then follows him into the woods. There the fairy rulers Oberon and Titania are locked in a quarrel, and Oberon's sprite Puck carries a flower whose juice makes a sleeper fall in love with the first person seen on waking. A troupe of townsmen, led by Peter Quince and including Nick Bottom, takes its rehearsal into the same forest.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
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- The film was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome and in Caprarola and Montepulciano, Italy, with the play's action moved from Athens to a fictional Monte Athena in Tuscany, although all textual mentions of Athens were retained.
- The score uses Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for an 1843 stage production, including the famous Wedding March, alongside operatic works by Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioacchino Rossini and Pietro Mascagni, plus a recording of Renée Fleming singing "Casta diva" from Bellini's opera Norma.
