Invention for Destruction
Vynález zkázy
Czechoslovakia • 1958
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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.
Synopsis
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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Credits
Crew
DirectorKarel Zeman
WriterKarel Zeman, Jiří Brdečka, František Hrubín
CinematographerJiří Tarantík
ComposerZdeněk Liška
EditorZdeněk Stehlík
Cast
Lubor Tokošas Šimon Hart
Jana Zatloukalováas Jana
Arnošt Navrátilas Profesor Roche
Miloslav Holubas Count Artigas