The Stolen Airship

Synopsis

Origin:

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.

Cast

Michal Pospíšil

Jakoubek Kurka

Hanuš Bor

Tomáš Dufek

Jan Čížek

Martin

Josef Stráník

Pavel

Jan Malát

Petr

Jitka Zelenohorská

Katka

Čestmír Řanda

Findejs

Stanislav Šimek

Editor Ardan

Josef Větrovec

kapitán

Jan Teplý

Walstone

Rudolf Deyl

Jana Sedlmajerová