The Impossible Voyage

(1904)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 210 votes

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Year: 1904

Runtime: 20 мин

Country: France

Director: Georges Méliès

Cast: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, May de Lavergne

Plot

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Before the eminent scientists and members of the renowned geographic society called the Institute of Incoherent Geography, the unconventional and resolute engineer, Mabouloff, lays out his extremely ambitious plans for an unprecedented exploration around the globe. By means of all possible ways of transportation, the enthusiastic travellers start off their impossible voyage from the snow-capped Alps; however, right from the start, calamity strikes. In the end, is man meant to conquer the unfathomable boundaries of earth and space?