Light Years (film)

Gandahar (English title "Light Years") is a 1988 French animated science fiction and fantasy film. The original version was directed by René Laloux, and was based on a story from Jean-Pierre Andrevon. The English version was directed by Harvey Weinstein, and noted science-fiction author Isaac Asimov made the revision of the translation.

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English - 1988 - French - Science fiction - Fantasy film - René Laloux - Jean-Pierre Andrevon - Harvey Weinstein - Isaac Asimov

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The animation was in color and ran for 83 minutes. Among the actors providing the voices for the English-language version were Glenn Close, Jennifer Grey, Penn and Teller, John Shea and Christopher Plummer. The film is notable for its strange scenery and exotic flora, fauna, and bizarre inhabitants.

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Glenn Close - Jennifer Grey - Penn and Teller - John Shea - Christopher Plummer

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The paradise world of Gandahar is threatened by a mysterious power, so Queen Ambisextra (Glenn Close) and the Council of Women send the warrior Sylvain (John Shea) to scout for this danger. He discovers metallic humanoids with a paralyzing ray who sent the bodies of those they captured through a portal. Later these individuals returned, also encased in metal.

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Airelle (Jennifer Grey) serves as the love interest for Sylvain. He meets "The Deformed", a group of mutants who Sylvain at first mistakes for the enemy.

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The cause of this terror is traced to the giant brain Metamorphis (Christopher Plummer), although Metamorphis is puzzled about how he could be the cause. The metal humanoids are coming back in time from the future, so Metamorphis offers to place Sylvain in stasis until that time. Sylvain awakens in 1,000 years as planned, and destroys the old, weakened Metamorphis.

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