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| Original 1958 Czech Poster |
1958, B&W, Czech Republic, 78 min., Cinema Classics
Production Team
Director : Karl Zeman
Screenwriter : Karel Zeman, Frantisek Hrubin
Cinematographer : Antonín Horák, Bohuslav Pikhart, Jirí Tarantík
Editor : Zdenek Stehlík
Cast : Lubor Tokos, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr, Václav Kyzlink, Jana Zatloukalová
Music : Zdenek Liska
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Ondrej Beranek, Punk Film, Veslarsky ostrov 62, 147 00 Prague 3 (République tchèque), ondrejberanek@punkfilm.cz.
I highly recommend this film especially for children. It is a wonderful adventure and suspense, where the right wins over the evil. The film's old-fashioned type of narrative, plot, subject matter, animation, and actors' interpretation all give it a sense of authenticity and even innocence, though the film is about malice and a threat of total destraction. This is a digitized remake of the original film that was released in 1958 and won a Grand Prix at the Brussels's Expo 58 World Film Festival. It was subsequently shown all over the world, in many countries, and hundreds of cinemas.
The plot of the film is simple but effective and compelling. The visual effects and animation are stunning, especially when one considers there were no computers at the time to process and create this type of unique background imagery and animation. All the visual effects had to be made from the scratch, laboriously, and manually, by hand. Karel Zeman invented many amazing techniques for this film. They are in the one-of-the-kind category, special and unique, and very effective. And even today, they are still being marvelled at by the cinema and animation specialists since they are not available to be easily recreated by the modern computer programs.
If you will have an opportunity to see this remake of the original Karel Zeman's film, now called INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION, do not hesitate and go to see it. And take your kids and all the children in your neighbourhood with you!
Film's Official Synopsis
THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (Czech: Vynález zkázy, literally The Deadly Invention or An Invention for Destruction) is a 1958 Czech adventure film directed by Karel Zeman. Based on several works by Jules Verne, primarily his 1896 novel Facing the Flag, the film evokes the original illustrations for Verne's works by combining live actors with various forms of animation. In it an evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
Director
Karel Zeman (1910-1989) was a Czech film director, artist, pupeteer and animator. After early success with the character Mr Prokouk, and with both glass, INSPIRATION (1949) and cutout animation, A TREASURE OF BIRD ISLAND (1952), he dazzled the film world with a couple special-effects masterpieces JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME (1955) and THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (1958).
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