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Gandahar

Name: Gandahar
Director: René Laloux
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Released: 1987
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Catherine Chevallier, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anny Duperey, Christine Pâris, Georges Wilson

On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.

1987 · Directed by René Laloux · 83 min · Animation · Science Fiction · Fantasy · Adventure · 20 frames

Tagline

‘In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, and all its people massacred. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can’t be avoided will be.”

Crew

Screenplay: René Laloux
Written by: Raphael Cluzel, René Laloux
Cinematography: Pierre Biecher
Edited by: Christine Pansu
Music: Gabriel Yared, Christian Zanessi
Produced by: Jean-Claude Delayre, Henri Rollin

Cast

Catherine Chevallier as Airelle (voice)
Pierre-Marie Escourrou as Sylvain Lanvère (voice)
Anny Duperey as Ambisextra (Voice)
Christine Pâris as Le porte-parole (Voice)
Georges Wilson as Métamorphe (voice)
Jean-Pierre Ducos as Blaminhor (Voice)
Olivier Cruveiller as L'homme-métal (Voice)
Zaïra Benbadis as Voix enregistrée (Voice)
Claude Degliame as Voix enregistrée (Voice)
Jean-Pierre Jorris as Transformé (Voice)

Production

Country: France
Language: French
Studios: Films A2, Col.Ima.Son, Revcom Télévision, CNC
Budget: $5,500,000
Box office: $370,698
Themes: utopia, invasion, surrealism, robot, adult animation, visual poetry

More by René Laloux

The Snails — 1966
Fantastic Planet — 1973
Time Masters — 1982

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