La Planète Sauvage

Fantastic Planet
French release poster
Directed by	René Laloux
Produced by	Simon Damiani Anatole Dauman Andre Valio-Cavaglione
Written by	René Laloux Roland Topor
Based on	Oms en série by Stefan Wul
Narrated by	Jean Valmont
Music by	Alain Goraguer
Cinematography	Boris Baromykin Lubomir Rejthar
Edited by	Dick Elliott Rich Harrison
Production company	Les Films Armorial Ceskoslovenský Filmexport
Distributed by	Argos Films (French release) New World Pictures (US release)
Release date	6 December 1973 (1973-12-06)
Running time	71 minutes
Country	France Czechoslovakia
Language	French

Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage, Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. The Wild Planet) is a 1973 animated 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 in Prague. The film was an international co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia. The allegorical 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 was awarded the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and in 2016, it was ranked the 36th greatest animated movie ever by Rolling Stone.

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.