Fantastic Planet

Release Date: 1973-12-01

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.6 / 10

Cast

Gérard Hernandez

as Master Taj (voice)

Jean Valmont

as Adult Terr / Narrator (voice)

Jennifer Drake

as Tiwa (voice)

Yves Barsacq

as Om (voice)

Jeanine Forney

as Terr's Bride (voice)

Crew

René Laloux - Director
Stefan Wul - Novel
Marta Látalová - Editor
Jindřiška Beberová - Animation
Eva Kretzerová - Animation

Reviews

badelf:

Clearly an acid driven film of the early 70s, yet somehow even better than Yellow Submarine, for example. Is it the origin of the human race? An allegory of our coming destruction brought about by our...