--- title: 'Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)' type: 'film' director: 'Karel Zeman' released: '1955-01-01' runtime_minutes: 85 genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Adventure' - 'Science Fiction' - 'Family' countries: - 'Czechoslovakia' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/journey-to-the-beginning-of-time-1955' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047930/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) 1955 · 85 min · Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction, Family · Czechoslovakia Original title: Cesta do pravěku ## Synopsis Journey to the Beginning of Time is a 1955 Czechoslovak science fiction adventure directed by Karel Zeman, produced in colour using a combination of 2-D and 3-D models. It was the first of Zeman's productions to include actors in conjunction with stop-motion and special effects. It won awards at the International Film Festivals of Venice and Mannheim. In 1966, Cesta do pravěku was dubbed into English, creating a modified US version, Journey to the Beginning of Time. ## Credits - **Director:** [Karel Zeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-zeman) - **Screenplay:** [Karel Zeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-zeman), [Josef Alois Novotný](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-alois-novotny) - **Original Music Composer:** [Emil František Burian](https://cinepixo.com/people/emil-frantisek-burian) - **Producer:** [Bill Cayton](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-cayton) - **Director of Photography:** [Antonín Horák](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonin-horak), [Václav Pazderník](https://cinepixo.com/people/vaclav-pazdernik) - **Editor:** [Zdeněk Stehlík](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-stehlik) ## Cast - [Bedřich Šetena](https://cinepixo.com/people/bedrich-setena) - [Petr Herrmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/petr-herrmann) - [Josef Lukáš](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-lukas) - [Zdeněk Husták](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-hustak) - [Vladimír Bejval](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-bejval) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/journey-to-the-beginning-of-time-1955 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1767168); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.