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Skywhales is a British film of genre Drama with Robert Llewellyn
Skywhales (1983)
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Add to a movie listSkywhales is a 1983 animated short film that depicts a fictional society of alien creatures dwelling in the atmosphere of a gas giant. The film is notable for the completeness of its depiction of a fictitious society, including alien language, flora, fauna, and social structures and practices.
It was released at the cinema in the United Kingdom in 1984, showing before the film Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is one of a number of animated shorts that feature on the British Animation Collection Volume 1 DVD.
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Sur une étrange planète, sorte d'île flottant dans les airs, une peuplade parlant un étrange language (les Perleians) se nourrit en chassant des créatures ailées, s'apparentant à des raies manta volantes. A la fin de leur vie, les chasseurs sont soudain pris d'un mal étrange. Ils s'isolent alors dans une caverne au centre de l'île pour se jeter dans un trou qui traverse la planète de part en part. Tout au long de sa chute, le chasseur se transforme petit à petit en un cocon. Une fois sorti à l'autre bout de la planète, il en sort une nouvelle raie manta qui s'en va rejoindre ses congénères, bouclant ainsi l'étrange cycle de vie de la planète.Actors
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