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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
1958 · Directed by Karel Zeman · 83 min · Adventure · Science Fiction · 8 frames
Tagline
Fantastic Pedal Blimps Fly The Skies! - Four-Footed Machines In Incredible Sea Battle!
Crew
- Screenplay: František Hrubín, Jiří Brdečka, Karel Zeman
- Cinematography: Jiří Tarantík
- Edited by: Zdeněk Stehlík
- Music: Zdeněk Liška
- Production design: Karel Zeman
Cast
- Lubor Tokoš as Šimon Hart
- Jana Zatloukalová as Jana
- Arnošt Navrátil as Profesor Roche
- Miloslav Holub as Count Artigas
- František Šlégr as Pirate Captain
- Otto Šimánek as The Man on the Train
- Václav Kyzlink as Ing. Serke
- František Řehák
- Václav Babka
- Alena Kreuzmannová as Jana (voice)
Production
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Language: Czech
- Studios: Krátký film Praha – Studio loutkového filmu Gottwaldov
- Themes: based on novel or book, kidnapping, shipwreck, invention, hot air balloon, pirate gang, automobile, stop motion, reporter, black and white
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