Heiners Filmseiten – Journey to the Beginning of Time (en)

Journey to the Beginning of Time (Cesta do pravěku)

German title: Dinomania – Reise in die Urwelt
Francaise title: Voyage dans la préhistoire
Russian title: Путешествие к началу времён
Original title: Cesta do pravěku

Alternative titles:
Die Reise in die Urzeit | Cesta do pravecku | Voyage dans les temps préhistoriques | Journey to Prehistory

Fantasy movie – CSSR
Production year: 1955
Movie length: 93 minutes

Director: Karel Zeman
Writer: Karel Zeman, J. A. Novotný (Josef Alois Novotný)
Cinematograph: Václav Pazderník, Antonín Horák
Music: Emil František Burian, Vlastimil Pinkas

Movie description:

One day at the entrance to a cave Jirka finds the fossilized remains of a trilobite, a 500 million years old crustacean. Together with his friends, he decides to undertake a scientific expedition back to those primeval times: They start out during the holidays in a rowing boat. After travelling through the cave they travel back into the various individual periods of the Earth’s past, heading for the primeval ocean of the Paleozoic period. In the Ice Age they encounter sabertoothed tigers and mammoths, going on into the Tertiary, and into the Mesozoic period. In the age of dinosaurs, they witness the fight to death between a Tyrannosaurus rex and a Stegosaurus. At the end of their travels, they stand on the shores of the Paleozoic ocean where they find a living trilobite!

Boy Actors