Directed by:
René LalouxScreenplay:
Roland ToporComposer:
Alain GoraguerCast:
Jean Topart, Hubert de Lapparent, Gérard Hernandez, Miroslav Masopust, Hana Maciuchová, Jorga Kotrbová, Marie Vášová, Věra Kubánková, Václav Voska (more)VOD (3)
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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 native inhabitants (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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jean Topart
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Mr. Klein (1976)
Hubert de Lapparent
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
Gérard Hernandez
Spain
Best movies:
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
Le Trou (1960)
Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978)
Miroslav Masopust
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1974)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Muži jdou v tmě (1975) (TV movie)
Hana Maciuchová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Cyrano z Bergeracu (1986) (theatrical recording)
Dům na nebesích (1984) (theatrical recording)
Mnoho povyku pro nic (1972) (theatrical recording)
Jorga Kotrbová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Racek (1996) (theatrical recording)
Young Bohácek's Sufferings (1969)
Marie Vášová
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
The Emperor's Baker - The Baker's Emperor (1951)
Conscience (1948)
Věra Kubánková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Válka vypukne po přestávce (1978) (theatrical recording)
Panoptikum Města pražského (1987) (series)
Václav Voska
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series) - actor, narrator
The White Lady (1965)
Josef Větrovec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Stolen Airship (1966)
Byl jednou jeden dům (1974) (series)
Svatební cesta do Jiljí (1983) (TV movie)
Jiří Holý
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Ubohý pan Kufalt (1981) (TV movie)
Witchhammer (1969)
Lucerna (1967) (TV movie)
Bohumil Bezouška
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Emperor's Baker - The Baker's Emperor (1951)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
V zámku a podzámčí (1981) (TV movie)
Václav Kaňkovský
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Scapinova šibalství (1980) (TV movie)
On the Comet (1970)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Alfred Strejček
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Veselé windsorské paničky (1974) (theatrical recording)
The Illusionist (2006)
Jean Valmont
France
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Eric Baugin
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Claude Joseph
France
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Les Charlots font l'Espagne (1972)
William Coryn
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Yoyo (1965)
Jeanine Forney
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)