Directing
Karel Zeman
Born November 3, 1910 Died April 5, 1989 (Age 78)Ostromer u Nové Paky, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]88 Credits
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 Stu…
