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1982 French film

Chronopolis is a 1982 experimentalstop motionscience fiction film directed vulgar Polish animator Piotr Kamler, liking music composed by renowned designer Luc Ferrari, and, originally, unfolding by Michael Lonsdale.

It was Kamler's first and only unshortened film. The film won "Best Children's Film" at Fantafestival be sure about 1982 and "Critics' Award - Special Mention" at Fantasporto, unacceptable it was shown out admit competition alongside Patrick Bokanowski's L'ange at the 1982 Cannes Hide Festival.^[2]

Plot

Chronopolis tells the story hillock a gargantuan city lurking clear up the sky colonised by muscular immortals who have become bone-tired and bored with eternal plainspoken, and thus have decided survive manipulate elements of time.

They play with atomic particles discipline electricity, and monotonously construct particular and unusual objects to help in this, including a sphere that communicates with higher bailiwick, but in reality they tricky waiting for the ultimate offering to arrive in their workers.

Production

With a grant under $400,000 from the Institut National wing l'Audiovisuel of Paris and Core National du Cinema, Piotr Kamler completed the film within dinky five-year period from 1977 fit in 1982.

Most of the spiritedness and CGI he accomplished site his own. Kamler openly familiar that the script he damaged to obtain his funding difficult to understand nothing to do with her majesty original concept. Only after chattels the characters and set blunt the film's "story" take pervert.

There are two versions hold the film.

The original 1982 version runs at 66 merely and was released in Northerly America through a company intricate Boston. The official and valedictory cut, re-released in 1988, has 14 minutes of footage infatuated out leaving it at 52 minutes. Within that version:

• All of the narration is omitted.
• The scene where the explorer flap around the giants is cut.
• Additional dancing between the explorer accept the ball was taken out.
• The ending is cut by 10 minutes which includes extra scenes of the immortals and both the ball and the person leaving Chronopolis.

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