Raoul Servais
Taxandria
Edition 1994
82'
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1994
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Fantasy, Adventure
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Dialogue:
English
Director:
Raoul Servais
Composer:
Kim Bullard
With:
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt
An eleven-year-old boy, Jan arrives at a rundown seaside hotel with his tutor, Mr. Bonze. His high spirits stand in marked contrast to the doom-and-gloom cynicism of the grown-ups. Avoid the lighthouse keeper they tell him. He's a weirdo and he eats seagulls for breakfast. As soon as he can, of course, Jan makes straight for the lighthouse. Karol, the keeper, turns out to be a delightful man, a refugee from a place where progress was outlawed and technology banned. It was, he says, destroyed in a great cataclysm ...
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Credits
Director
Raoul Servais
Composer
Kim Bullard
With
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt
Scenario
Raoul Servais, Frank Daniel, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Director of Photography
Gilberto Azevedo, Walter van den Ende
Editor
Chantal Hymans
Producer
Heinz Bibo, Dany Geys, Tharsi Vanhuysse
More information
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
Belgium, Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, France
Screenplay based on
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Year
1994
Filmography
Raoul Servais
Harbor Lights (short, 1960), November Diversion (short, 1962), The False Note (short, 1963), Chromophobia (short, 1965), Sirene (short, 1968), Goldframe (short, 1969), To Speak or Not to Speak (short, 1970), Operation X-70 (short, 1971), Pegasus (short, 1973), Het Lied van Haleweyn (short, 1976), Harpya (short, 1979), Die schöne gefangene (1982), Taxandria (1994), Nocturnal Butterflies (1998), Atraksion (short, 2001), Winter Days (short, 2003), Tank (short, 2015), Der Lange Kerl (short, 2021)
