Seventy-year-old filmmaker Karel Zeman recapitulated his thirty years of work in the field of animated and trick films. The film Karel Zeman for Children includes excerpts from Baron Prášil, The Tale ...

The Czech director and artist is best known for directing fantasy films that followed in the footsteps of Georges Mélies, combining both live-action and animation. The Velaslavasay Panorama, in ...

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 ...