Synopsis
Jan, a young prince, moves into a luxury seaside hotel out of season to study for his exams. Under the guidance of Mr. Bonze, his etiquette-obsessed tutor, the little prince gets bored. Though warned against it, he is drawn to the lighthouse at the end of the beach. Karol, the lighthouse keeper, is a curious old misanthrope who takes care of injured birds. The old man and the boy gradually tame each other. Karol opens Jan's eyes to the world of dreams and imagination by introducing him to a mysterious, timeless world of Taxandria.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Les Productions Philippe Dussart
- Foreign production companies : Iblis Films, Bibo Filmproduktion
- French distribution : Les Films de l'Atalante
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Raoul Servais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Frank Daniel
- Directors of Photography : Walther Vanden Ende, Gilberto Azevedo
- Music Composer : Kim Bullard
- Editor : Chantal Hymans
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Vandendriessche
- Foreign producers : Heinz Bibo, Dany Geys
- Line Producer : Dominique Standaert
- Co-producers : Bertrand Dussart, Philippe Dussart
- Press Attaché (film) : Marie Queysanne
- Production Designers : Yvan Bruyère, Hubert Pouille
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Belgium, Germany)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 21/02/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 76.896
- Visa issue date : 28/04/1995
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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"Although normally photographed films and animated films are distinctly different both in the way they operate and in their basis principles, they are nevertheless periodically subject to mutual infiltrations and interferences. For the last two decades my interest has been focused on these undelineated boundaries, this no-man's-land of film-making. "Harpya" was the first tangible result. Its successor, the full lenght film "Taxandria", makes use of high-definition digitalisation to unite the two families of the moving image in a perfect marriage. But "Taxandria" is also, perhaps first and foremost, a clarion call for freedom of speech and tolerance !"
(Raoul Servais)
