Fantastic Planet
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| Directed by | René Laloux |
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Oms en série by Stefan Wul |
| Narrated by | Jean Valmont |
| Music by | Alain Goraguer |
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Les Films Armorial
Ceskoslovenský Filmexport |
| Distributed by | Argos Films (French release) New World Pictures (US release) |
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71 minutes |
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| Language | French |
Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage, Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. The Wild Planet) is a 1973 Franco-Czech allegorical cutout stop-motion science fiction film directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor. Topor also completed the film's production design and it was animated at Jiří Trnka Studio.
The film was an international co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. The story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.
A working title while in development was Sur la planète Ygam (On the Planet Ygam), which is where most of the story takes place; the actual title (The Fantastic/Savage Planet) is the name of Ygam's moon. The film won the special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. It had a total of 809,945 admissions in France.
In the distant future, the gargantuan blue humanoid Draags have brought human beings (who are called Oms as a play on the French word for "man", homme) from Earth to the planet Ygam, where they maintain a technologically and spiritually advanced society. The Draags consider Oms animals, and while they keep some as pets, others live in the wilderness and are periodically slaughtered by the Draags, who wish to control their population. Draags have much longer lifespans than Oms, but reproduce much less.
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