Basic Info
Release: August 22, 1958
Runtime: 83 min
Rating: ⭐ 7.1/10 (87 votes)
Status: Released
Videos
Karel Zeman: Invention for Destruction - distribution trailer of the digitally restored film (YouTube)
John Landis on THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE (YouTube)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
1958
83 min
⭐ 7.1/10
87 votes
Overview
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.
Genres
Adventure
Science Fiction
Production Countries
- Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
- Czech cs
Flatrate
Criterion Channel
Cast
Lubor Tokoš
Šimon Hart
Jana Zatloukalová
Jana
Arnošt Navrátil
Profesor Roche
Miloslav Holub
Count Artigas
František Šlégr
Pirate Captain
Otto Šimánek
The Man on the Train
Václav Kyzlink
Ing. Serke
František Řehák
Václav Babka
Alena Kreuzmannová
Jana (voice)
Felix le Breux
Head Physician (voice)
František Černý
Capt. Spade
Crew
Karel Zeman
Director
František Hrubín
Screenplay
Jiří Brdečka
Screenplay
Karel Zeman
Screenplay
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