Fantastic Planet is a 1973 French-Czechoslovak animated science fiction film directed by Rene Laloux, based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en serie, depicting a planet where diminutive humans called Oms are kept as pets and later rise in rebellion against the giant blue humanoid Draags who dominate them. The film was created using a distinctive cutout stop-motion animation style developed by artist Roland Topor, giving it a surreal visual texture unlike contemporary feature animation elsewhere. Fantastic Planet won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and is widely regarded as a landmark of adult-oriented animated science fiction.
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Original LanguageSourced to the subject's own account AwardSourced to the subject's own accountCannes Film Festival Special Prize 1 Release YearSourced to the subject's own account CountrySourced to the subject's own accountFrance and Czechoslovakia 1 Connections
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1. Fantastic Planet (Wikipedia)
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Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète Sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. 'The Wild Planet') is a 1973 surrealist adult animated science fiction art film directed by René Laloux.
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It was a co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia
Fantastic Planet, Description, original language
Fantastic Planet is a 1973 French-Czechoslovak animated science fiction film directed by Rene Laloux, based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en serie, depicting a planet where diminutive humans called Oms are kept as pets and later rise in rebellion against the giant blue humanoid Draags who dominate them.
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The film won the Special Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival
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