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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

Fantastic Pedal Blimps Fly The Skies! - Four-Footed Machines In Incredible Sea Battle!

19587.11h 23m

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.

Directed by Karel Zeman
Written by Milan Vácha, Jules Verne, Karel Zeman
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Top Cast

Lubor Tokoš

Lubor Tokoš

Šimon Hart

Jana Zatloukalová

Jana Zatloukalová

Jana

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Arnošt Navrátil

Profesor Roche

Miloslav Holub

Miloslav Holub

Count Artigas

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František Šlégr

Pirate Captain

Otto Šimánek

Otto Šimánek

The Man on the Train

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Václav Kyzlink

Ing. Serke

František Řehák

František Řehák

Václav Babka

Václav Babka

Alena Kreuzmannová

Alena Kreuzmannová

Jana (voice)

Themes & Keywords

based on novel or bookkidnappingshipwreckinventionhot air balloonpirate gangautomobilereporterblack and whitescientistevil dictatorsteam enginemini submarine19th centurygiant squidmessage in a bottlenuclear explosivedreamworldunderwater tunnelvolcanic islandweapons of warairflightsteam powermagic lanternhidden island baserescue at seapower madness

About The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne is a adventure, science fiction film released in 1958 exploring themes of based on novel or book, kidnapping, shipwreck, invention, hot air balloon, pirate gang. Directed by Karel Zeman, it stars Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová, Arnošt Navrátil. 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.

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