Karel Zeman (3rd 11th 1910 - 5. 4. 1989) - Czech film director, a pioneer of animated film scriptwriter. Author world-famous images of Journey to the Beginning , A Deadly Invention , Baron Munchausen and others.

Karel Zeman was born in Ostrom�� Nov� Paka. Attended two years of business school and a course in drawing and arranging advertising. Experience gathered in a film studio as a draftsman in the years 1930 to 1936 he lived in France, then worked for Tomas Bata in Zlin. After the occupation of the Republic Nazi occupying army crossed into Zl�n's film studio. There are at frame A Christmas Dream met with the director of animated films Herm�na T�rlov� a writer Borivoj Zeman. Film studios in a fire in 1944 burned down, but then it Zeman along with its namesake following year made again.

Significantly for himself Karel Zeman pointed to feature special effects film Journey to the Beginning (1954), which was in Venice awarded as the best children's film festival in Mannheim won the Critics' Prize and the State Prize home. Further success came four years later after the film Deadly Invention made according to the same original Jules Verne. Viewers worldwide Zeman literally captivated impressive workmanship, which is in the spirit of the original book illustrations L�on Benett and �douard Riou. Among other awards won for Deadly Invention in 1959, the Grand Prize of the French Academy. Another director garnered prices for images Baron Munchausen , A Jester's Tale , The Stolen Airship or The Comet . Name Karel Zeman is the world cinema concept at the premiere of the film Jurassic Park in 1993, he recalled with reverence and director Steven Spielberg.