Karel Zeman
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1910-11-03 (79 years old)
Deathday
1989-04-05
Place of Birth
Ostromer u Nové Paky, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Also known As
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Karel Zeman
Biography
Karel Zeman was a brilliant pioneer of special effects in film. Despite his artistic talent, his parents insisted he study business. At the age of 17, he went to Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, where he studied advertising design. In 1943, the film director Elmar Klos offered him a job at the Bata Film Studios. Zeman often had to struggle against difficult conditions in the technically ill-equipped Kudlov Studios. Many of the workers with whom he started had no particular experience of filming. They, like Zeman himself, had to learn everything on the job. Journey to the Beginning of Time, released in 1955, became Zeman's breakthrough ...
Acting
1980
as Self
1949
as Glass Blower
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1953
as Animation
1959
as Writer
1959
as Set Decoration
1978
as Director
1978
as Screenplay
1955
as Director
1955
as Screenplay
1949
as Screenplay
1948
as Screenplay
1962
as Director
1970
as Director
2001
as Scenario Writer
1974
as Director
1974
as Screenplay
1947
as Story
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Director
1947
as Animation
1953
as Director
1967
as Director
1958
as Director
1980
as Director
1980
as Writer
1948
as Story
1964
as Director
1964
as Screenplay
1949
as Story
1949
as Director
1967
as Art Direction
1958
as Production Design
1958
as Special Effects
1958
as Screenplay
1958
as Screenstory
1970
as Art Direction
1946
as Director
2015
as Director
1980
as Director
1947
as Director
1960
as Director
1960
as Writer
1945
as Director
1974
as Art Direction
1978
as Art Direction
1945
as Animation
1948
as Director
1947
as Director
1980
as Art Direction
1980
as Animation
1949
as Director
1949
as Writer
1962
as Story
1962
as Screenplay
1951
as Director
1951
as Screenplay
1957
as Screenplay
1957
as Idea
1957
as Animatronics Designer
1947
as Animation
1953
as Screenplay
1947
as Screenplay
1947
as Special Effects
1945
as Art Designer
1967
as Screenplay
1970
as Screenplay
1955
as Special Effects
1956
as Story
1956
as Screenplay
1951
as Adaptation
1955
as Story
1955
as Art Designer
1955
as Special Effects
1958
as Art Designer
1962
as Art Designer
1964
as Story
1946
as Director
1955
as Director
1955
as Writer
1952
as Director
1952
as Director of Photography
1946
as Screenplay
1946
1946
as Director of Photography
1946
as Screenplay
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