Light Years (film)
| Gandahar | |
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French film poster
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| Directed by | René Laloux |
| Produced by |
Jean-Claude Delayre Henri Rollin |
| Written by | René Laloux |
| Screenplay by | Raphael Cluzel |
| Based on |
Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar by Jean-Pierre Andrevon |
| Music by | Gabriel Yared |
| Edited by | Christine Pansu |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time
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83 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Gandahar is a 1988 French animated science fantasy film. The original version was directed by René Laloux, and was based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon's novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar).
An English version was directed by Harvey Weinstein and produced by Bob Weinstein, while noted science-fiction author Isaac Asimov made the revision of the translation. The English title is a translation, not of the original title, but of the original tag line "Les Années lumière" (The Light Years) as seen on the French poster.
Voice actors for the original French version included Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Catherine Chevallier, Georges Wilson, Anny Duperey, Jean-Pierre Ducos, and Jean-Pierre Jorris.
Among the actors providing the voices for the English-language version were Glenn Close, Jennifer Grey, Terrence Mann, Penn and Teller, John Shea, Bridget Fonda, David Johansen, Earle Hyman, Earl Hammond and Christopher Plummer.
The animation was in colour and ran for 83 minutes. Production work was done by SEK Animation Studio of North Korea. The film is notable for its strange scenery and exotic flora, fauna, and bizarre inhabitants. The design was by the French comic book artist Caza.
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