Trivia / Karel Zeman

• Completely Different Title: This happened a lot when Zeman's films were released abroad, as the "released in the US" notes in the filmography indicate. For example, Vynález zkázy (literally "Invention for Destruction") became The Fabulous World of Jules Verne in America and Aventures fantastiques ("Fantastic Adventures") in France.
  • Ironically, Vynález zkázy is itself a Completely Different Title; it's the standard Czech title for Jules Verne's book Facing the Flag (French: Face au drapeau), the main source material for the film.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: This was the case with Zeman's work for a long time, although the recent Czech DVD releases approved by the Zeman family and produced by Prague's Karel Zeman Museum are beginning to change matters some. The English-speaking world still hasn't gotten its own proper DVD releases of most of the films, however. Happily The Criterion Collection is slowly correcting this, first by adding The Fabulous Baron Munchausen to their streaming service and then releasing an elaborate box set of three of his features (Munchausen, Journey to the Beginning of Time, and Invention for Destruction) plus four shorts in 2020.