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{{Infobox film
| name           = Wedding in the Coral Sea
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| director       = [[Jiří Brdečka]]<br>[[Jaroslav Kándl]]<br>[[Eduard Hofman]]<br>[[Břetislav Pojar]]<br>[[Václav Bedřich]]<br>[[Stanislav Látal]]<br>[[Jaroslav Doubrava (director)|Jaroslav Doubrava]]<br>[[Josef Kluge]]
| producer       = Zdeněk Reimann
| writer         = [[Horst von Möllendorff]]
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| music          = Julius Kalaš
| cinematography = Vladimír Novotný
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| studio         = Prag-Film
| distributor    = Státní půjčovna filmů
| released       = {{film date|1944|11|3}}
| runtime        = 11 minutes
| country        = Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
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'''''Wedding in the Coral Sea''''' ({{langx|cs|'''Svatba v korálovém moři'''}}; {{langx|de|'''Hochzeit im Korallenmeer'''}}) is a 1944 Czech animated short film. It was written, animated and directed by a group of Czech cartoonists including [[Jiří Brdečka]], [[Břetislav Pojar]], [[Stanislav Látal]] and [[Jaroslav Doubrava]] in German-occupied [[Prague]] in the "Ateliér filmových triků" (AFIT) studio.<ref name="kratkyfilm">{{cite web|url=http://www.cmvu.cz/cz1266e4/kratky-film-detem/|title=Krátký film dětem|accessdate=2010-09-12}}</ref>
==Plot==
The plot involves the creatures of the sea preparing for the wedding of two fish.  When the fish bride is kidnapped by an octopus all the sea creatures must team up to defeat him and rescue the bride.
==Production==
German cartoonist [[Horst von Möllendorff]] was appointed as an official director, while his role in the making of the film was in fact minimal.<ref name="shortfilm">{{cite web|url=http://www.shortfilm.com/uploads/media/cf_Katalog_2009_Animationsfilm_01.pdf|title=Schatten des Krieges|accessdate=2010-09-12}}</ref> The film was shot on [[Agfacolor]] film material.
==See also==
*[[List of German films 1933-1945|List of films made in the Third Reich]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0378053}}
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[[Category:1944 films]]
[[Category:Czechoslovak animated short films]]
[[Category:Films of Nazi Germany]]
[[Category:Czech animated short films]]
[[Category:German animated short films]]
[[Category:Animated films about fish]]
[[Category:Films about kidnapping]]
[[Category:Films about weddings]]
[[Category:Films directed by Jiří Brdečka]]
[[Category:Films directed by Břetislav Pojar]]
[[Category:Films directed by Stanislav Látal]]
[[Category:Films directed by Horst von Möllendorff]]
[[Category:Films set underwater]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Horst von Möllendorff]]
[[Category:1944 animated short films]]