Zeman's most famous film is a triumph of visual imagination, combining nonstop adventure-undersea pirates, fantastical airships, giant kraken, and more-with moments of pure poetry. A splendid amalgam of Verne's An Invention for Destruction, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and other works, Fabulous World follows a brilliant-but-naïve inventor and his resourceful assistant, who are abducted by a Nemo-like madman seeking to control the world's most powerful explosive. Probably the finest (if not the most faithful) adaptation of Verne's work ever made.