Avalon (2001 film)

Avalon
Polish release poster
Directed by	Mamoru Oshii
Screenplay by	Kazunori Itō
Produced by	Atsushi Kubo
Starring	Małgorzata Foremniak Dariusz Biskupski
Cinematography	Grzegorz Kędzierski
Edited by	Hiroshi Okuda
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Production companies	Deiz Production Bandai Visual Media Factory Dentsu Nippon Herald Films
Distributed by	Nippon Herald Films (Japan) A-Film Distribution (Poland)
Release dates	20 January 2001 (2001-01-20) (Japan) 12 April 2002 (2002-04-12) (Poland)
Running time	106 minutes
Countries	Japan[1] Poland
Language	Polish
Budget	$8 million
Box office	$449,275

Avalon (Japanese: アヴァロン, Hepburn: Avaron), also known as Gate to Avalon, is a 2001 Polish-language science fiction drama film directed by Mamoru Oshii and written by Kazunori Itō. An international co-production of Japan and Poland, the film stars Małgorzata Foremniak as Ash, a player in an illegal virtual reality video game whose sense of reality is challenged as she attempts to unravel the true nature and purpose of the game.

Avalon was filmed in Wrocław, Nowa Huta, the Modlin Fortress and Warsaw. The 2009 film Assault Girls that was written and directed by Oshii, is a stand-alone sequel set in the same fictional universe as Avalon.^[2]