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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Vynález zkázy
1958 · Film · 83 min
Directed by Karel Zeman
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.
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A movie called Vynález zkázy ("the destructive contraption") based on severa of Verne's works was made in Czechoslovakia in 1958, combining animations based on line art from some of Verne's books with live acting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabulous_World_of_Jules_Verne
It won the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival that was held as part of Expo 58 in Brussels.
Czechs and Slovaks can't get enough Verne. Check out all the translations of The Mysterious Island between 1878 and 2018. Some of the translators did it several times again, one of them six times.
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajupln%C3%BD_ostrov#%C4%8Cesk%C3%A1_vyd%C3%A1n%C3%AD