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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.
Feb 21, 1996 · Taxandria: Directed by Raoul Servais. With Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elliott Spiers, Katja Studt, Richard Kattan. A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse.
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- Adventure, Fantasy
- Raoul Servais
- 1996-02-21
Texandria (also Toxiandria; later Toxandria, Taxandria), is a region mentioned in the 4th century AD and during the Middle Ages. It was situated in the southern part of the modern Netherlands and in the northern part of present-day Belgium, an area currently known as Campine (Kempen in Dutch).
Taxandria is a Belgian-French animated film released in 1994 that follows the story of a young artist named Jan who travels to the fantasy world of Taxandria. This world is a mysterious and magical place that is surrounded by an impenetrable wall that separates it from the rest of the world.
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- Raoul Servais
Feb 21, 1996 · 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 lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of...
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The frequently surrealistic work is the tale of young Prince Jan, who has been sent to a quiet coastal resort to study. But instead, he befriends a crazy lighthouse keeper and enters a dreamland called Taxandria, a phantasmagorical place devoid of time, memory, and progress.
