Journey to the Beginning of Time is a 1955 Czech science fiction film.
Plot[]
Four teens Petr, Tonik, Jenda and Jirka all want to find a live trilobite. So during a school vacation they take a rowboat through a “journey of time.”
As the teens go upstream they realize they are going farther and farther back in time. And on their journey they learn about the ancient world.
Species represented[]
- Unidentified trilobite
- Dimetrodon (poster only)
- Stegosaurus
- Ceratosaurus
- Phorusrhacos
- Tyrannosaurus (poster only)
- Styracosaurus
- Triceratops (poster only)
- Stegosaurus
- Brontosaurus
- Trachodon
- Pteranodon
- Deinotherium
- Uintatherium
- Smilodon
- Woolly Rhinoceros
- Woolly Mammoth
- Honanotherium
- Helladotherium
Reception[]
The film is regarded the best Czech science fiction film of all time. It also was successful in Germany, Japan, and the USA.