Fantastic Planet

For the albums, see Fantastic Planet (Failure album) and Fantastic Planet (DIN album). For the safari park, see Planete Sauvage (safari park).

Fantastic Planet
Poster showing a giant blue humanoid Traag examining a human in her hand.
French release poster
FrenchLa Planète sauvage
Directed byRené Laloux
Written by
Based onOms en série
by Stefan Wul
Produced by
Narrated byJean Valmont
Cinematography
  • Boris Baromykin
  • Lubomir Rejthar
Edited by
  • Hélène Arnal
  • Marta Látalová
Music byAlain Goraguer
Production
companies
Les Films Armorial
Studio Jiri Trnka
Distributed byArgos Films (France)
Ceskoslovensky Film Export (Czechoslovakia)
Release dates
  • 11 May 1973 (1973-05-11) (Cannes)
  • 6 December 1973 (1973-12-06) (France)
  • 21 December 1973 (1973-12-21) (Czechoslovakia)
Running time
71 minutes[1]
Countries
  • France
  • Czechoslovakia
LanguageFrench

Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. 'The Wild Planet') is a 1973 French-language experimental independent[2] adult animated science fiction art film,[3] directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, the latter of whom also completed the film's production design. The film was animated at Jiří Trnka Studio in Prague.[4] The film was an international co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia. The allegorical story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.

A working title while in development was Sur la planète Ygam (On the Planet Ygam),[5] which is where most of the story takes place; the actual title (The Fantastic/Savage Planet) is the name of Ygam's moon. Production began in 1963. Fantastic Planet was awarded the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival,[6] and in 2016, it was ranked the 36th greatest animated movie ever by Rolling Stone.[7]

  1. ^ "Fantastic Planet (A)". British Board of Film Classification. 29 May 1974. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  2. ^ Don Bluth Goes Independent - AWN.com
  3. ^ "10 Essential Arthouse Sci-Fi Films". Film School Rejects. 1 September 2018.
  4. ^ "La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) @ BCDB". BCDB. 16 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013.
  5. ^ Stephenson, Ralph (1967). "15. Filmographies". In Peter Cowie (ed.). Animation in the Cinema. International Film Guide. London: A. Zwemmer. p. 173.
  6. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Fantastic Planet". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
  7. ^ Charles Bramesco, Alissa Wilkinson, Scott Tobias, Noel Murray, Jenna Scherer, Tim Grierson, and Sam Adams (28 June 2016). "40 Greatest Animated Movies Ever - 36. 'Fantastic Planet' (1973)". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2017.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)