Les maîtres du temps

French animator René Laloux is one of the rarest and perhaps most neglected figures on the European animation scene of recent decades. Director of three features –La planète sauvage, Les maîtres du temps and Gandahar–, the second of which was a four-handed effort with Moebius, based on the novel L’orphelin de Perdide, by the reputed French sci-fi writer Stefan Wul –whose book Oms en série was to inspired Laloux’ first feature–. The young Piel loses his parents when their spaceship crashes onto the surface of the inhospitable planet Perdide. While waiting to be rescued, he has to grapple with an unfamiliar and dangerous yet fascinating world inhabited by beings conjured up by the imaginative hands of Laloux and Giraud.

Francia-Suiza-R.F.A.-Reino Unido-Hungría, 1982
Dirección: René Laloux
Producción: Michel Gillet, Roland Gritti / Telecip, TF1 Films Productions, SSR, SWF, WDR
Guión: Jean Giraud,
René Laloux,
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Fotografía: Zoltán Bacsó,
András Klausz, Mihály Kovács, Árpád Lossonczy
Dirección artística: Jean Giraud
Música: Christian Zanesi,
Pierre Tardy,
Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Montaje: Dominique Boischot
Duración: 78 minutos