Karel Zeman

Karel Zeman was born on 3 November 1910 in Ostroměř, into the family of a mother-of-pearl button maker. His parents having wanted him at the business school in Kolín, he became an advertising draughtsman and window dresser, then in 1943 joined the special-effects studio in Zlín, where he made films with puppets and glass figurines before combining actors, animation and sets drawn from nineteenth-century engravings. He died in Zlín, then Gottwaldov, on 5 April 1989.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaJourney to the Beginning of TimeCesta do pravěkuKarel Zeman · 1955Cinema