Directed by:
Karel ZemanCinematography:
Jiří TarantíkComposer:
Zdeněk LiškaCast:
Lubor Tokoš, Arnošt Navrátil, Miloslav Holub, František Šlégr, Václav Kyzlink, Jana Zatloukalová, Otto Šimánek, František Řehák, Václav Babka (more)VOD (1)
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This eye-popping escapade revolves around a scientist and his doomsday machine—and the pirates who will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. Freely adapting the fiction of Jules Verne, and inspired by Victorian line engravings, Karel Zeman surrounds his actors with animated scenery of breathtaking intricacy and complexity, constructing an impossibly vivid proto-steampunk world. Released abroad at the turn of the 1960s, Invention for Destruction went on to become one of the most internationally successful Czechoslovak films of all time. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Lubor Tokoš](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271573_d4b03d.jpg)
Lubor Tokoš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Witchhammer (1969)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
![Arnošt Navrátil](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/051/471/51471317_ed6ba5.jpg)
Arnošt Navrátil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Invention for Destruction (1958)
Prokop Diviš (1977) (TV movie)
Strom vědění dobrého (1976) (TV movie)
![Miloslav Holub](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274257_b22459.jpg)
Miloslav Holub
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Ear (1970)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961)
![František Šlégr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274558_700718.jpg)
František Šlégr
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
![Václav Kyzlink](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/457/165457886_fbdb7d.jpg)
Václav Kyzlink
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
Conscience (1948)
![Jana Zatloukalová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/115/162115003_321dc1.jpg)
Jana Zatloukalová
Best movies:
Invention for Destruction (1958)
Dobrodružství Huckleberryho Finna - Král a vévoda (1966) (TV movie)
Místenka bez návratu (1964)
![Otto Šimánek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268669_c79972.jpg)
Otto Šimánek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Men About Town (1969)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
![František Řehák](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268166_595094.jpg)
František Řehák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Secluded, Near Woods (1976)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Snowdrop Festival (1983)
![Václav Babka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272603_a36839.jpg)
Václav Babka
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Invention for Destruction (1958)
All My Compatriots (1968)
The Stolen Airship (1966)
![Alena Kreuzmannová](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/633/163633444_a74748.jpg)
Alena Kreuzmannová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
How to Get Dad Into Reform School (1978) (TV movie)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
![Felix le Breux](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274469_18732a.jpg)
Felix le Breux
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Emperor's Baker - The Baker's Emperor (1951)
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)