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Karel Zeman
Writer 1910 - 1989

Karel Zeman

Ostromer u Nové Paky, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Karel Zeman was a brilliant pioneer of special effects in film. Despite his artistic talent, his parents insisted he study business. At the age of 17, he went to Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, where he studied advertising design. In 1943, the film director Elmar Klos... Read full bio →

Filmography

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9 titles
Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Marence

Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Marence

Karel Zeman 1980 1h 5m

Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he becomes burdened with life's hardships. But then he meets a pretty water nymph, Mary.

Carodejuv ucen

Carodejuv ucen

Karel Zeman 1978 1h 13m

Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic.

Na komete

Na komete

Karel Zeman 1970 1h 14m 8.3

Poslední z trikových hraných filmů Karla Zemana, které vizuálně vycházely z rytin provázejících romány Julese Verna. e to poslední film, v jehož titulcích směl být jako scenárista uveden Jan Procházka.

Ukradená vzducholod

Ukradená vzducholod

Karel Zeman 1967 1h 24m

Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibition. A live-action/animated film based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island.

Bláznova kronika

Bláznova kronika

Karel Zeman 1964 1h 22m 7.0

Vizuálně experimentující film, prolínající dávné rytiny do filmového obrazu, zasadil Karel Zeman do vichrů třicetileté války

Baron Prásil

Baron Prásil

Karel Zeman 1962 1h 25m 9.2

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.

Vynález zkázy

Vynález zkázy

Karel Zeman 1958 1h 23m 7.8

This marvelous film from Czech master animator Karel Zeman is a partial adaptation of the Jules Verne novel "Facing the Flag." The story treads the well-worn path of world domination as attempted by a piratical mastermind, who uses a morally myopic scientist's high explosive.

Cesta do praveku

Cesta do praveku

Karel Zeman 1955 1h 25m 8.7

One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.

Poklad Ptacího ostrova

Poklad Ptacího ostrova

Karel Zeman 1953 1h 15m

People living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.

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