Name: Journey to the Beginning of Time
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Released: 1955-08-05
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Vladimír Bejval, Petr Herrmann, Josef Lukáš, Zdeněk Husták, Bedřich Šetena

Journey to the Beginning of Time backdrop

1955·Adventure·1h 25m

7.1

★

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

Directed by Karel Zeman

czech

boat

mammoth

time travel

primitive time

prehistory

prehistoric creature

dinosaur

raft

rowboat

fossil

woolly mammoth

stegosaurus

teenage protagonist

natural history museum

Trailer

IMDB

N/A

Cast

Vladimír Bejval

Jirka

Petr Herrmann

Toník

Josef Lukáš

Petr

Zdeněk Husták

Jenda

Crew

Karel Zeman

Director

Karel Zeman

Screenplay

E. F. Burian

Original Music Composer

Karel Zeman

Story

Karel Zeman

Art Designer

Karel Zeman

Special Effects

Karel Černý

Art Designer

Zdeněk Liška

Sound Director

Popular Reviews

44 reviews

Jeshua

8.0★ · 01/03/26

Stegosauruses are my favourite dinosaur

Nathan Rogers

7.0★ · 09/19/25

Spine #1015

A very charming and heartwarming look at science and prehistoric animals :) I love stop motion

Tereza Nečasová

7.0★ · 08/12/25

My dad showed me this movie when I was a kid, and for two weeks straight I went looking for dinosaurs. Spoiler: I actually did find them, and since then we've been chilling together.

alexis

7.0★ · 01/30/25

got unreasonably stressed every time they went in the water

Nick

5.5★ · 12/03/24

cute

7/10