Taxandria (1996)
1h 22m
Running Time
February 21, 1996Release Date
Taxandria (1996)
1h 22m
Running Time
February 21, 1996Release Date
Plot.
A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.
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Cast & Crew.
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Karol / Virgilus
Elliott Spiers
Aimé Perel
Katja Studt
Princess Ailée
Julien Schoenaerts
Mr. Bonze
Richard Kattan
Jan
Raoul Servais
Director
Andrew Sachs
André / Superintendent
Frank Daniel
Writer
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Wiki.
Taxandria is a partially animated fantasy film by Raoul Servais, collaborating on a script with Frank Daniel and French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, and starring, among others, Armin Mueller-Stahl. Being Servais's first and to date only feature film, Taxandria is notable for the use of Servais's distinct animation style, the servaisgraphie, as well as its connection to the Belgian graphic novel series Les Cités Obscures whose creator François Schuiten was the film's production designer.