Karel Zeman
1910 - 1989
Ostromer u Nové Paky, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Actor
Director
Production Design
Screenplay
Writer
Biography
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 a
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