''The Stolen Airship'' ( cz, Ukradená vzducholoď; it, I ragazzi del capitano Nemo) is a
1966 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker
Karel Zeman
Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. Because of his creative use of special effec ...
.
The story is based loosely on
Jules Verne's novels ''
Two Years' Vacation'' and ''
The Mysterious Island
''The Mysterious Island'' (french: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's f ...
''. The film in
Art Nouveau style consists of
live-action
Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video ...
scenes, generally shot in
black and white, as well as
hand-drawn,
stop motion
Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames i ...
, and
cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often
composited into the same scene.
Cast
* Hanus Bor as Tomás Dufek
* Jan Cizek as Martin
* Jan Malát as Pavel
* Michal Pospísil as Jakoubek Kurka
* Josef Stráník as Petr
* Jitka Zelenohorská as Katka
* Jana Sedlmajerová as Renata (Sekretárka)
* Vera Macku as Martinova (Matka)
* Eva Kubesová as Dufková
* Marie Brozová as Jakoubkova babicka
References
External links
*
Study guide for the film
1967 films
1967 animated films
1967 adventure films
Czech aviation films
Italian animated films
Films directed by Karel Zeman
Films with live action and animation
Films using stop-motion animation
Animated films based on novels
Films based on French novels
Films based on works by Jules Verne
Art Nouveau works
Films based on multiple works
Czechoslovak animated films
Czech animated films
Czech adventure films
Films with screenplays by Karel Zeman
Czechoslovak adventure films
Italian adventure films
1960s Italian films
Steampunk films
Czech animated adventure films
Czech animated fantasy films
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