Ukradená vzducholod (1967)

Director:

Karel Zeman

Writers:

Radovan Krátky, Jules Verne (novel),

Stars:

Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Jan Malát

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Hanus Bor	...	Tomás Dufek (as Jan Bor)
Jan Cizek	...	Martin
Jan Malát	...	Pavel
Michal Pospísil	...	Jakoubek Kurka
Josef Stráník	...	Petr
Jitka Zelenohorská	...	Katka
Jana Sedlmajerová	...	sekretárka Renata
Vera Macku	...	Martinova matka
Eva Kubesová	...	Dufková
Marie Brozová	...	Jakoubkova babicka
Stepánka Rehákova	...	Komorná
Cestmír Randa	...	Prof. Findejs
Miroslav Holub	...	Dufek
Rudolf Deyl	...	Mr. Tenfield
Karel Effa	...	cerny Gustav

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

part live action | shark | foreign language adaptation | magician | paperboy | 

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Genres:

Family | Adventure | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

Italy Czechoslovakia

Language:

Czech

Release Date:

28 April 1967 (Czechoslovakia)

Also Known As:

The Stolen Airship

Company Credits

Production Co:

Carlo Ponti Cinematografica, Filmové Studio Gottwaldov, Filmové studio Barrandov

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Technically and artistically flawless children's story

This is an absolutely enchanting, instantly appealing story to anyone who remembers being young: a 5 kids steal an airship from a county fair and embark on various adventures. Karel Zeman captures the adventure of being young without getting sentimental or turning the story into a Dennis the Menace episode. Perhaps the most amazing aspect of this movie is the cinematography, designed to look like moving woodcut pictures from old children's books. It looks and "works" much better than you'd expect it to. The backgrounds are stylized mattes, the foregrounds are painted to look crosshatched, and stop motion paper cutouts are used to depict objects in a stylized yet consistent way. I cannot recommend this movie enough.