- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Genres: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
- Release: 1958-08-01
- Director: Karel Zeman
- Writers: Frantisek Hrubín , Jules Verne , Milan Vácha , Karel Zeman
- Language: Czech
- Stars: Lubor Tokos , Arnost Navrátil , Miroslav Holub , Frantisek Slégr , Václav Kyzlink , Jana Zatloukalová , Frantisek Cerný , Otto Simánek , Václav Trégl
- Runtime: 83 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Aventures fantastiques (France, French Republic) , Διαβολική εφεύρεσις (Greece) , Invention for Destruction (United Kingdom) , Diabelski wynalazek (Poland) , Un invento diabólico (Spain) , Les aventures fantastiques (France, French Republic) , Vynález zkázy , Дяволското откритие (Bulgaria) , Die Erfindung des Verderbens , Die Erfindung des Verderbens , The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Canada) , The Deadly Invention (United Kingdom) , Vynález Zkázy , Invention for Destruction (United States of America) , Invenție diabolică (Romania) , An Invention for Destruction (Australia) , La diabolica invenzione (Italy) , The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (United States of America) , L'invention diabolique (France, French Republic) , Una invención diabólica (Spain) , Ölümcül İcat (Turkey) , The Deadly Invention , The Deadly Invention , Vynález Zkázy (Czech Republic) , 悪魔の発明 (Japan) , Тайна острова Бэк-Кап , Vynález Zkázy (Slovakia (Slovak Republic)) , Ο θαυμαστός κόσμος του Ιουλίου Βερν (Greece) , Kaptajn Nemos sidste bedrift (Denmark) , Una invención diabólica (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , Invention for Destruction (Canada) , Aventures fantastiques (Canada) , Salaisuuksien saari (Finland) , Det fantastiska äventyret (Sweden) , Den dødbringende opfindelse (Denmark) , Ördögi találmány (Hungary) , Vynález Zkázy , A Invenção Diabólica (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Un invent diabòlic (Spain) , The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (United Kingdom) , Una invención diabólica (Argentina)
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0052374
Invention for Destruction Cast · · · ALL
Karel Zeman
Director
Lubor Tokos
Šimon Hart
Jana Zatloukalová
Jana
Arnost Navrátil
Profesor Roche
Miroslav Holub
Count Artigas
Frantisek Slégr
Pirate Captain
Otto Simánek
The Man on the Train
Václav Kyzlink
Ing. Serke
Frantisek Rehák
Václav Babka
Alena Kreuzmannová
Jana (voice)
Felix Le Breux
Head Physician (voice)
Frantisek Cerný
Capt. Spade
Václav Trégl