
About the film

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Invention for Destruction
Release Date: August 22, 1958
Year | : | 1958 |
Slogan | : | «Fantastic Pedal Blimps Fly The Skies! - Four-Footed Machines In Incredible Sea Battle!» |
Genres | : | Adventure, Science Fiction |
Production Companies | : | Krátký film Praha – Studio loutkového filmu Gottwaldov |
Director | : | Karel Zeman |
Producers | : | Vojtěch Kunčík, Zdeněk Novák, Jan Stráník |
Writers | : | Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, Karel Zeman, František Hrubín, Jiří Brdečka, Milan Vácha |
RunTime | : | 83 mins. |
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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Trailer: Karel Zeman: Invention for Destruction - distribution trailer of the digitally restored film
Featurette: John Landis on THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE
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