KarelZeman &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:KarelZeman @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:39:59 +0200 Baron Prášil [The Fabulous Baron Munchausen] (Karel Zeman, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0b86 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Baron Prášil [The Fabulous Baron Munchausen] (Karel Zeman, 1962)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Under the Skin – 2013/div div class="img" Baron Prášil (1962)/div div class="caption" The Baron (Miloš Kopecký) on the Moon clinks glasses with Cyrano de Bergerac (Karel Höger) and several characters from Jules Verne's De la terre à la lune (1865). A baffled 20supth/sup century astronaut looks on. DP: Jiří Tarantík./div div class="txt" A weird of quirky sci-fi film on the date Under the Skin (2013) was released in the UK. "I cast my hat out into the universe, let it greet those who are on their way from Earth. From this day forward, the Moon is no longer a dream." ### – Cyrano de Bergerac /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #GottfriedAugustBürger #MilošKopecký #JanaBrejchová #RudolfJelínek #KarelHöger #ZdeněkLiška #JiříTarantík #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Baron Prášil [The Fabulous Baron Munchausen] (Karel Zeman, 1962)

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Under the Skin – 2013

Baron Prášil (1962)

A weird of quirky sci-fi film on the date Under the Skin (2013) was released in the UK.

“I cast my hat out into the universe, let it greet those who are on their way from Earth. From this day forward, the Moon is no longer a dream.”

– Cyrano de Bergerac

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #GottfriedAugustBürger #MilošKopecký #JanaBrejchová #RudolfJelínek #KarelHöger #ZdeněkLiška #JiříTarantík #animation #fantasy #SciFi #comedy #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0b86 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Vynález zkázy (1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/vynalez-zkazy-1958 <![CDATA[Vynález zkázy (1958) Vynález zkázy (1958) ### April 11: ride a #submarine on #NationalSubmarineDav Vynález zkázy [A Deadly Invention] (Karel Zeman, 1958) “Jules Verne was a dreamer. He was a dedicated follower of technology, but he saw it through his own eyes, and the eyes of his time. But with his vast imagination, he created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful naiveté, which charms us even today.” —Karel Zeman Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker who seemingly magically combined live action with stop motion animation. In his Vynález zkázy, loosely based on Jules Verne's Face au Drapeau [Facing the Flag aka For the Flag] (1896), a fiendish count kidnaps a professor to get his hands on a terrible super-weapon. Underwater pursuits commence! Vynález zkázy (1958) Based on the engravings that accompany the Verne story, Zeman came up with fantastic, highly stylised in-camera effects that make the sets, actors and props resemble cross-hatched etchings. That's more than enough words for such a spectacle. Watch a href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ZLfe5xad4U"the trailer/a #Bales2023FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #JulesVerne #LuborTokos #StopMotion #animation #fantasy #adventure #SciFi #BookAdaptation #trailer #Czechoslovakia #1950s ★★★½ ToDo]]> Vynález zkázy (1958)

Vynález zkázy (1958)

April 11: ride a #submarine on #NationalSubmarineDav

Vynález zkázy [A Deadly Invention] (Karel Zeman, 1958)

“Jules Verne was a dreamer. He was a dedicated follower of technology, but he saw it through his own eyes, and the eyes of his time. But with his vast imagination, he created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful naiveté, which charms us even today.” —Karel Zeman

Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker who seemingly magically combined live action with stop motion animation. In his Vynález zkázy, loosely based on Jules Verne's Face au Drapeau [Facing the Flag aka For the Flag] (1896), a fiendish count kidnaps a professor to get his hands on a terrible super-weapon. Underwater pursuits commence!

Vynález zkázy (1958)

Based on the engravings that accompany the Verne story, Zeman came up with fantastic, highly stylised in-camera effects that make the sets, actors and props resemble cross-hatched etchings.

That's more than enough words for such a spectacle. Watch the trailer

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #JulesVerne #LuborTokos #StopMotion #animation #fantasy #adventure #SciFi #BookAdaptation #trailer #Czechoslovakia #1950s ★★★½

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