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 ...

The stories of Baron Münchhausen were enriched by Karel Zeman with a character of a modern astronaut Tommy and compare two different worlds - the world of a rococo cavalier whose fantasy does not have ...

Czech director Karel Zeman’s 1962 film is the Egyptian’s adventure movie pick this weekend. A weird and wonderful 85 minutes of pure swashbuckling and escapades at sea await you. The film was recently ...

The first feature (1954) of Czech trick-film artist Karel Zeman, whose later works include the charming Baron Munchausen and The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. Explorers travel 500 million years into ...