Movie

The Insect Play (1939)

• May 29, 1939
• 1h 30m

• Music
• Drama

Overview

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

Director

Stephen Thomas

Writers

Josef Čapek, Karel Čapek

Starring

Wilfrid Grantham, Edmund Willard, Pamela Standish