Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)

Director
Karel Zeman

Main cast
Vladimír Bejval; Petr Herrmann; Josef Lukáš; Zdeněk Husták; Bedřich Šetena

Genres
Adventure, Fantasy, Family

Description
Most classical sci-fi from K. Zeman. Four young boys visit a dinosaur exhibit at the New York city Museum of Natural History. They then row out onto Central Park Lake where they find a secret cave and paddle into, and go back-in-time into a wondrous prehistoric world filled with the very dinosaurs they had just seen.


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