The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

1958 · 83 min · CS · 7.2 (97 votes)
Dir. Karel Zeman · Starring Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová, Arnošt Navrátil, Miloslav Holub, František Šlégr, Otto Šimánek · Music Zdeněk Liška

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

AdventureScience Fiction

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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A delightful dive into imaginative 19th-century science. It feels like a grand, optimistic adventure, brimming with ingenious contraptions and a sense of pure, unadulterated wonder at the possibilities of invention.

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