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.
Director: Karel Zeman
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