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Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. [4]
Karel Zeman (born 28 February 1977) is an Italian football coach and the son of Czech-born manager Zdeněk Zeman.
Karel Zeman (3. listopadu 1910 Ostroměř – 5. dubna 1989 Zlín) byl československý filmový režisér, výtvarník, loutkář, animátor a reklamní grafik. Společně s Hermínou Týrlovou a Jiřím Trnkou je považován za zakladatele československého animovaného filmu.
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A gang of pirates working for the evil Count Artigas kidnap a scientist and his assistant in order to obtain the secret of the scientist's futuristic weapon. This weapon is intended to be used in the Count's plan for world domination.
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Karel Zeman, a Czech film director and animator, was deeply influenced by the novels of Jules Verne, making four feature films between 1955 and 1970, and drawing extensively on Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires series. The first of these, Journey to the Beginning of Time, was inspired by Journey to the Center of the Earth and featured a scene in which its heroes directly acknowledged their fondness for reading Verne. The second of Zeman's Verne-based films was Vynález zkázy; the later ones were...
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The film has long been noted for its unique visual style, which faithfully recreates that of the Victorian line engravings (by Édouard Riou, Léon Benett, and others) featured in the original editions of Verne's novels. According to Karel Zeman's daughter Ludmila Zeman: "As a child, I remember I had all the books with those beautiful engravings. I really can't visualize the story any other way. And my father felt, because he adored Verne [...] it can only be a good [re]telling to use the same...
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The film's score was written by Zdeněk Liška, a highly regarded film composer known for his skill with musical characterizations and humor, as well as for his innovative use of electronic music techniques. In the mid-20th century, he was the foremost Czech composer of fantasy film scores. The score is written in an old-fashioned style complementing the quaintness of the visuals, and often redolent of the film's imaginary machinery.Liska would suggest editing cuts to the director, to speed up...
Vynález zkázy treats the scientific themes of Jules Verne's novels with gently satiric affection, implicitly praising Verne's style while deliberately pointing up the quaintness of the science involved. In an interview, Ludmila Zeman summed up the film's themes, saying that Verne "always warned that even if the future is technologically perfect wit...
Vynález zkázy premiered in Czechoslovakia on 22 August 1958, and was featured at Expo 58 in Brussels, where it won the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival. Over the following year, the film also garnered a Silver Sombrero at the First International Film Festival in Guadalajara, a Czechoslovak Film Critics Award, a Crystal Star from the Fr...
Invention for Destruction at AllMovieInvention for Destruction at IMDbKarel Zeman was a Czech film director, screenwriter, and animator. He is primarily remembered for creating fantasy and science fiction films which combined live-action and animation. In 1910, Zeman was born in the village of Ostromer in Austria-Hungary.
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03.11.1910 – 05.04.1989. One of the most significant Czech directors, screenwriters and fine artists, Karel Zeman was born in 1910 and died in 1989. He made a number of short, medium-length, and feature-length films, the most renowned of which are Journey to the Beginning of Time, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne and The Fabulous Baron ...
Karel Zeman (Ostroměř, cerca de Nová Paka, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de noviembre de 1910- Praga, Checoslovaquia, 5 de abril de 1989) 1 fue un cineasta checo, director de películas de animación, considerado, junto con Jirí Trnka, uno de los fundadores del cine checo de animación.
