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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 offered him a job at the Bata Film Studios. Zeman often had to struggle against difficult conditions in the technically ill-equipped Kudlov Studios. Many of the workers with whom he started had no particular experience of filming. They, like Zeman himself, had to learn everything on the job. Journey to the Beginning of Time, released in 1955, became Zeman's breakthrough film, his first to combine live action, animation and puppetry. Four years later, Invention for Destruction saw him shoot to world-wide success. Zeman continued to develop his highly successful use of special effects in The Fabulous Baron Munchausen and the two Jules Verne adaptations that followed. In the 70's, Zeman returned to making strictly animated films. In the late 70's Zeman was threatened with the loss of his sight, but he overcame the disease and continued working. In the final stages of his life he suffered from heart problems.
Most Popular Karel Zeman Trailers
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12 July 1946
Mr. Prokouk finds a horseshoe and thinks it's a good luck charm. So, he decides to take it with him home and find a suitable place for it.
26 October 1945
Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree.
16 December 1955
The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland ultimately wins.
31 March 2015
A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.
09 September 1949
A glass blower imagines that his creations come to life. A story of love contained within a single drop of rain.
22 August 1958
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.
01 July 1962
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.
01 November 1980
Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself.
28 April 1967
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.
05 August 1955
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
21 January 2015
French DVD compilation of five short films by Czech animator Karel Zeman.
09 October 1970
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.
01 March 1978
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.
01 November 1974
Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life.
18 December 1964
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka who get caught up in both sides of the war and experience many adventures before they find happiness.
01 January 1960
A film of the Czech multimedia theatre production, Magician's Lantern. Eight Czechoslovak directors filmed a choreographic performance conceived and directed by director Alfred Radok and artist Josef Svoboda.
22 February 1953
People living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.
01 January 1952
A silent promotional film directed by the great Karel Zeman.
23 July 1949
After a hard day at work, Mr. Prokouk decides to invent a machine to ease his labor. But inventing is work too, and Mr.
22 August 1947
Mr. Prokouk postpones the filming and decides to leave for the agricultural brigade.
01 January 1948
Shortfilm from the Mr. Prokouk series. Mr. Prokouk wants to be a filmmaker, but the making of a film has more complications than he expected.
13 September 1946
Animals try to escape from a flood.
23 March 1951
A king hides an embarrassing secret - and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.
01 January 1980
Seventy-year-old filmmaker Karel Zeman recapitulated his thirty years of work in the field of animated and trick films.
01 January 1947
While building a house, Mr. Prokouk is interrupted by a chap in a barrel with a seemingly endless supply of free liquor.
14 February 1947
Cobbler Mr. Prokouk starts working in an office where there is a lot of paperwork too big for him.
28 August 1957
Story of Mr. Prokouk, who having read too many detective stories sees criminals everywhere.
