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Karel Zeman

Director

Karel Zeman

Directing
1955 — 1978 · 4 films
Lived
3 November 1910 — d. 1989
From
Ostromer u Nové Paky, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

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.

Career Signature

How Karel Zeman’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.