Three fantastic journeys by Karel Zeman
(2020)

Fiction

Blu-ray

Call Numbers:
BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/CZECH/THREE

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Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/CZECH/THREE Due: 5/5/2024 Linkn On Loan

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Criterion Collection, [2020]
©2020
EDITION
Three-Blu-ray special edition
DESCRIPTION

3 videodiscs (84 pages, 81 pages, 83 min.) : black and white, and color ; sound ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm)

ISBN/ISSN
9781681436890 CC3116BD-1, 1681436892 CC31176BD-2, 9781681436890 715515241311 CC31176BD-3
LANGUAGE
Czech
NOTES

Invention for destruction freely adapted from the writings of Jules Verne

A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites

The fabulous Baron Munchausen is based on the works of Gottfried August Bürger, Gustave Doré

Invention for destruction (1958) : An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano

Special edition features: U.S-release version of "Journey to the Beginning of Time" from 1960 ; Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack for "Invention for destruction" and the opening sequence of the 1961 U.S.-release version; New programs with animation filmmaker John Stevenson and special-effects artists Phil Tippett and Jim Aupperle discussing Zeman and his complex visual trickery; Four early short films by Zeman -- A Christmas dream (1945), A horseshoe for luck (1946), Inspiration(1949), and King Lavra (1950) ; a 2015 documentary about the director featuring Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Ludmila Zeman and others ; Short documentaries produced by the Karel Zeman Museum; Restoration demonstrations and an interview with supervisor James Mockoski ; trailers ; new English subtitle translations ; essay by film critic Michael Atkinson

The fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) : The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself

A journey to the beginning of time: screenplay, J. A. Novotný

Invention for destruction : screenplay, František Hrubín

A journey to the beginning of time : Petr Herrmann, Vladimír Bejval, Josef Lukáš, Bedřich Šetena

Invention for destruction : Lubor Tokoš, Anrošt Navrátil, František Šlégr, Miloslav Holub, Václav Kyzlink, Jana Zatloukalová

The fabulous Baron Munchausen : Miloš Kopecký, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Jelínek, Karel Höger, Jan Werich, Rudolf Hrušínský

Blu-ray; mono; region A; 1.37:1 full frame

In Czech with English subtitles

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