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The Insect Play

The Insect Play

Release: 1939-05-29 ·Runtime: 90m
Music Drama

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.

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

BBC