Overview

Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibition. A live-action/animated film based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop-motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.

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Cast

Hanuš Bor

Tomáš Dufek

Jitka Zelenohorská

Katka

Čestmír Řanda

Findejs

Josef Větrovec

kapitán

Jan Teplý

Walstone

Rudolf Deyl

Jana Sedlmajerová

Václav Babka

Steersman Evans

Marie Brožová

Milan Neděla

Miloš Nesvadba

Josef Hlinomaz