The opening of the series took place on Wednesday 8 December with the screening of the film The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961). The Czech Ambassador to Denmark Radek Pech  welcomed the guests and after the screening there was a small reception for the visitors with Czech beer and wine. The film series then continued in December and January presenting some of the best films by Karel Zeman, who is rightly considered a pioneer of animated film.

Karel Zeman has made a number of world-renowned feature films known for creative use of special effects and poetics, the most famous of which are Invention for Destruction, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, War of the Fools, On the Comet, The Stolen Airship and Journey to the Beginning of Time. Zeman is often considered to be a successor of French filmmaker Georges Méliès. Karel Zeman's films were also the inspiration for the work of American filmmaker and actor Terry Gilliam, whose film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was be introduced during the film series.

 

Programme:

Invention for Desctruction (1958)

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961)

Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)

The Stolen Airship (1966)

Krabat – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1978)

Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor (1974)

The Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (Tomáš Hodan, 2015)

Programme for children:

Prokoak, The Acrobat (1959)

Creative workshop inspired by Karel Zeman's universe

 

The event has been prepared in cooperation of Danish Film Institute, Národní filmový archiv and Embassy of the Czech Republic in Denmark.