
July 13, 1929 · 97 years old
René Laloux was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns. It is at the psychiatric institution that he made 1960's Monkey's Teeth (Les D…

On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.

Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.

An evil force begins to destroy the idyllic paradise of Gandahar, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.