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Taxandria is a belge film of genre Fantastic directed by Raoul Servais with Armin Mueller-Stahl

Taxandria (1996)

Taxandria
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Length 1h16
Directed by
OriginBelgique
Genres Fantastic,    Fantasy,    Adventure,    Animation
Rating63% 3.189523.189523.189523.189523.18952

Taxandria (1994) is a partially animated fantasy film by Raoul Servais, based on a book by 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.

Synopsis

Young prince Jan has been sent to a quiet coastal resort to study for his final exams, but instead he spends most of his time with his new friend, the lighthouse keeper. Jan ignores the warnings of the locals who claim that the loony lighthouse man (Armin Mueller-Stahl) eats seagulls for breakfast. Maybe the lighthouse keeper is crazy, but this does not prevent him from introducing prince Jan to the dreamland Taxandria, a phantasmagorical place devoid of time, memory, and progress. Jan learns that a reason for the lighthouse keeper's notoriety among the locals is that from time to time he hides political refugees from Taxandria from the authorities; in one scene, we see some of these fugitives arrive at the coast in a boat and taken in by the lighthouse keeper. It is however never made clear whether Taxandria really exists or if the viewer only sees what the lighthouse keeper relates to prince Jan, although once Jan is transported to Taxandria simply by looking into the lighthouse's rotating light while the keeper is away.

Actors

Armin Mueller-Stahl

(Karol / Virgilus)Elliott Spiers

(Aimé Perel)Julien Schoenaerts

(Mr. Bonze)Andrew Sachs

(André / Superintendent)Daniel Emilfork

(First Minister)
And :
Cris Campion
John Edward Truscott
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