• City Gallery of Contemporary Art

PLATO

csen

Friday Cinema:

Fantastic Planet (FR/CSK, 1973)

Location:
  1. PLATO, Porážková 26

Accessible with hearing loss

72 min

In French with Czech subtitles

Admission fee to projections is included in the gallery admission.

 

Visually and intellectually remarkable, a futurist-looking animated film based on Stefan Wul’s novel.

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

 
 
 

Animated science fiction film

Directed by: René Laloux
Theme: Stefan Wul (book)
Screenplay: Roland Topor
Photography: Lubomír Rejthar, Boris Baromykin
Music: Alain Goraguer
Cast: Jean Topart, Hubert de Lapparent, Gérard Hernandez, Miroslav Masopust, Hana Maciuchová, Jorga Kotrbová, Marie Vášová, Věra Kubánková and others
Producer: Anatole Dauman
Edit: Marta Látalová