Invention for Destruction(Vynález zkázy)
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Czechoslovakia · 1958
1h 23m
Director Karel Zeman
Starring Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová, Arnošt Navrátil, Miloslav Holub
Genre Adventure, Science Fiction
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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.
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