A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969 film)
Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream) is a French TV film from 1969. It is based on A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, and was directed by Jean-Christophe Averty. Action The four lovers Hermia (Christine Delaroche), Helena (Claude Jade), Lysander (Michel Ruhl), and Demetrius (Dominique Serina) have fled to a forest near Athens to escape from their parents' marriage plans. The situation is bad, because Helena's beloved Demetrius is in love with Hermia. Since Helena wants to win over Demetrius, she reveals the escape plan. The four wander through the thicket in the kingdom of the elves. The elf couple Oberon (Jean-Claude Drouot) and Titania (Christiane Minazzoli) are arguing furiously there. Hoping to solve the lovers' romantic problems, the spirit Puck drops a magical potion into the eyes of the young man he believes to be Demetrius. The potion's effect makes the man fall in love with the first being he sees upon awaking. But Puck is mistaken: the sleeping man was Lysander. Now both Lysander and Demetrius are competing for the same woman, Hermia, who nobody previously loved. Hermia's jealousy is reawakened. Standing between the envious Hermia and her amorous suitors, Helena begins to despair.