FANTASTIC PLANET

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• Release Year: 1973
• Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Science-Fiction
• Plot: Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux's animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue natives (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags' oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.
• Cast: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont, Sylvie Lenoir, Michèle Chahan, Yves Barsacq, Hubert de Lapparent, Gérard Hernandez, Claude Joseph, Philippe Ogouz, Jacques Ruisseau, Cynthia Adler, Barry Bostwick, Mark Gruner, Nora Heflin, Marvin Miller, Monika Ramirez, Hal Smith, Olan Soule, Janet Waldo, René Laloux, Stefan Wul, Roland Topor, Steve Hayes, Anatole Dauman, Simon Damiani, Boris Baromykin, Lubomir Rejthar, Alain Goraguer
• Director: René Laloux
• Runtime: 1:12
• Company: Argos films, Les Films Armorial, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
• Media Format: Movie