The masters of the time - The 1982 animated film

The masters of the time (original French title: Les Maîtres du temps) is a 1982 science fiction animated film, produced by Franco-German-Swiss-British-Hungarian directed by René Laloux. and designed by Mœbius. It is based on the 1958 science fiction novel L'Orphelin de Perdide (Perdide's Orphan) by Stefan Wul.

The film centers on a boy, Piel, who is stranded on Perdide, a desert planet where giant killer hornets live. He awaits the rescue of space pilot Jaffar, exiled prince Matton, his sister Belle and Jaffar's old friend Silbad who are trying to reach Perdide and save Piel before it's too late.

History

A man named Claude is driving an insect-like six-wheeled vehicle very quickly on the desert surface of Perdide. He tries to communicate with Jaffar, saying that "they attacked" and that "Annie is dead". After an accident that wrecks his vehicle, he makes his son Piel get off the wreck; he cannot extricate himself. Piel is too young to understand the red and white interstellar transceiver that Claude offers him. So Claude tells him his name is "Mike" and he will talk to him, and to do whatever Mike tells him to do, but before running into a coral-like forest and staying inside. After Piel reaches the forest, the crashed vehicle explodes.

Jaffar is piloting a spaceship, the Double Triangle 22. He intends to reach Perdide by being carried away by the gravitational field of the Blue Comet. But he is several planetary systems away, and he does not go directly to Perdide or the Blue Comet. Instead he heads towards a planet where his friend Silbad resides, as Silbad has experience of living on Perdide. Jaffar's passengers, Prince Matton and his sister, Princess Belle, have been deposed from their planet; they carry with them a treasure that the prince brought with him to finance his restoration. Matton is not at all happy to be distracted and makes no attempt to hide his disappointment; in all he is portrayed as a lazy, arrogant and deceptive individual.

Everyone contacts Piel with the transceiver; when they meet Silbad, he too sings a song to Piel, as does the princess. While on the planet of Silbad, they witness the metamorphosis of a waterlily-like organism into dozens of empathic, sentient, and primary-colored homunculi, two of whom, named Yula and Jad, are hiding on Jaffar's spaceship in search of adventure. Unbeknownst to the prince, Yula and Jad play with and then dispose of the treasure through the airlock.

When Matton talks to Piel, he almost convinces the confident boy to drown himself in a lake, but is discovered by Belle, who stuns him with a firearm and talks to Piel about safety.

To meet with the Blue Comet, Jaffar pilots his ship to planet Gamma 10. Prince Matton escapes in a shuttle to the surface of Gamma 10, which is inhabited by faceless, identical white male angels. They capture both Matton and Jaffar, who follow them in a space lifeboat. Men will be thrown into the living, thinking amorphous being that controls the planet. Although they are unable to save Jaffar, Yula and Jad are able to warn him of the fate destined for the prisoners: they must become one with the being he controls, dominated entirely by it, losing all sense of individuality and becoming one of the angelic beings.

They charge Jaffar to resist being assimilated with all the hatred and contempt it can muster. When Jaffar tells the Prince to do it too, Matton leaps into being and does so, not only destroying it and the building, but having the skin and wings of all the angels peeled off to reveal that they were originally scruffy space men who resemble pirates. . Rescued from the surface of Gamma 10 by Yula and Jad, the freed prisoners are taken to Double Triangle 22, where they are given food and drink, and the presence of their minds causes comedic problems for Yula and Jad.

In doing so, Jaffar acquires a crew of misfits on the voyage to Perdide. Meanwhile Piel befriends a large but harmless creature, a hyponiterix, who places the boy on his back and carries him with him. Shortly thereafter, on board the ship, an Interplanetary Reformation patrol cruiser reaches Double Triangle 22, chasing the fleeing royals and the treasure the now deceased Prince has stolen. Jaffar believes the Gamma 10 "pirates" should be able to hijack the cruiser Reform and take it for themselves. While discussing this plan, one of Gamma 10's rescued beings, Onyx the Digeed of Gnaz, is revealed to be able to change shape to resemble any other object. Onyx will impersonate the missing treasure, allowing the fugitives to access the reformist ship.

Jaffar's ship is boarded by a huge number of troops and while it presents its "captured" pirates and "treasure" to the commander of the other ship, none of the crew of Double Triangle 22 is able to converse with Piel, who starts wandering unsupervised. On board Jaffar's ship there are congratulations as the docking tube between the two ships retracts and speculates how long it will take for the pirates to take control of the naval vessel. The military has overlooked Belle's presence aboard the ship, and in fact they seem interested only in the treasure itself, rather than the fugitives.

Realizing that they have lost contact with Piel, the crew attempts to contact him, but now it is impossible: traveling with his native companion, Piel has lost his transceiver (and his companion) inside a cave full of tentacles. hanging predators. He wanders, discouraged, back to the shore of the lake, which leads him out of the forest his father had taught him to stay inside.

Double Triangle 22 closes in on its destination, but the planet is transported through time by a bizarre race of aliens known only as the Time Masters. Perdide and everything in it, including Piel, is sent back 60 years in time. The time travel effect means that aboard the approaching Double Triangle 22, the star field appears to move and the unprotected crew faint.

They wake up in a vast space station, two halves of a planet-sized sphere split in two, surrounded by a continuously rotating cube described by vast luminous edges. The crew has been treated for exposure to the time travel area, but Silbad is dying. Yula and Jad telepathically reveal how Piel, sent back to the past with the entire planet, was attacked again by the creatures that killed his mother, losing part of his skull before a passing space traveler investigating this planet. suddenly appeared, came to his rescue. Silbad, when he first described Perdide to Jaffar and Belle, had revealed a metal plate on his head to repair the damage from this attack, but he had never demonstrated explicit knowledge of Piel, his parents' death, or the journey. in time.

It is now obvious to Jaffar and Belle that Silbad and Piel are the same person at different times in their lives, which ends shortly thereafter when the unconscious old man dies. He is "buried" in space, and his funeral is observed by one of the Masters of Time; a tall bright green biped with a drooping snout shaped like a beak.

Characters and voice actors

Jean Valmont as Jaffar
Michel Elias like whistle
Frédéric Legros as Skin
Yves-Marie Maurin as Brick
Monique Thierry like Beautiful
Sady Rebbot like Claude
Patrick Baujin like Jad
Pierre Tourneur as Yula
Alain Cuny like xul
Yves Brainville as General
Michel Barbey like Igor

Technical data and credits

Directed by René Laloux, Tibor Hernádi
Written by Moebius, René Laloux, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Stefano Wul
Basato su Stefan Wula's Orphelin de Perdide
Produced by Miklós Salunsinsky
with Jean Valmont
Michel Elias
Frederic Legros
Yves-Marie Maurin
Monique Thierry
Sady Rebbot
Photography Zoltán Bacsó, András Klausz, Mihály Kovács, Árpád Lossonczy
Curated by Dominique Boischot
Music by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Pierre Tardy, Christian Zanesi
Production Telecip
Film production TF1, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Südwestfunk, Radio-Télévision Suisse Romande, British Broadcasting Corporation, Pannónia, Filmstúdió, Hungarofilm
Distributed by Francaise Cinématographique Commercial Company
Exit date March 24, 1982 (France)
Duration 79 minutes
Villages France, West Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Hungary
Language French

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