FILM DIRECTOR

Karel Zeman

1910 - 1989

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Zeman has received more than 205,865 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Zeman is the 247th most popular film director (up from 251st in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Film Director.

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  • 28

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  • 2.15

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Karel Zeman ranks 247 out of 2,041. Before him are James Ivory, Yılmaz Güney, Bertrand Tavernier, Víctor Erice, John Sturges, and Lucio Fulci. After him are G. W. Pabst, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tsui Hark, Edward Dmytryk, Patrice Chéreau, and Frank Darabont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Karel Zeman ranks 66. Before him are Tancredo Neves, Lobsang Rampa, Pavel Batitsky, John Sturges, Miguel Najdorf, and Eero Saarinen. After him are A. J. Ayer, Tjalling Koopmans, Kim Yong-sik, Chico Xavier, Ferdinand Daučík, and Barthélemy Boganda. Among people deceased in 1989, Karel Zeman ranks 62. Before him are Carlos Arias Navarro, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Irving Stone, Hamani Diori, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, and Kaoru Ishikawa. After him are A. J. Ayer, Leonardo Sciascia, Werner Best, Franklin J. Schaffner, Bernard Blier, and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Zeman ranks 169 out of 1,200. Before him are Emilie Schindler (1907), Julius Fučík (1872), František Palacký (1798), Christoph Schönborn (1945), Georg Benda (1722), and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860). After him are G. W. Pabst (1885), Petr Čech (1982), David Popper (1843), Ivo Viktor (1942), Bedřich Hrozný (1879), and Ignaz Moscheles (1794).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Karel Zeman ranks 5. Before him are Miloš Forman (1932), Jiří Menzel (1938), Jan Švankmajer (1934), and Věra Chytilová (1929). After him are G. W. Pabst (1885), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), František Čáp (1913), Elmar Klos (1910), and Harun Farocki (1944).

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Filmography

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Director
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
Aug 22nd 19587.1 / 10
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Director
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.
Jul 1st 19627.4 / 10
Journey to the Beginning of Time
Director
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
Aug 5th 19557.3 / 10