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.
Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt, Richard Kattan, Julien Schoenaerts, Andrew Sachs
Crew: Raoul Servais (Director), Alain Robbe-Grillet (Writer), Frank Daniel (Writer), Raoul Servais (Writer)
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands
Language: English
Studio: Iblis Films, Bibo Films, Les Productions Dussart, Praxino Pictures, Mafilm, RTBF, HR, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS), Canal+, FilmNet, Club d'Investissement Média, Eurimages, Belgische Radio en Televisie
Runtime: 82 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 21, 1996
IMDb: 5.1
