Les Maîtres du temps

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Les Maîtres du temps
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Directed by	Rene Laloux
Written by	Moebius Rene Laloux Jean-Patrick Manchette Stefan Wul
Starring	Jean Valmont Michel Elias Michel Elias
Music by	Jean-Pierre Bourtayre Pierre Tardy Christian Zanesi
Editing by	Dominique Boischot
Distributed by	Image Entertainment
Release date(s)	April 25, 2000
Running time	79 min.
Language	French
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Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters) is an animated French/Hungarian science fiction film (79 minutes) from 1982. The film centers around a boy, Piel, who is stranded on Perdide, a desert planet devastated by an attack of giant killer hornets, and attempts by the space pilot Jaffar to rescue him - in the face of obstruction by the exiled prince Matton.

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Following a series of misadventures, Jaffar and his crew of misfits find themselves at Perdide, but at the point at which the planet is being transported through time by a bizarre race of aliens known only as the Masters of Time. Perdide and everything on it, including Piel, is sent back 60 years through time. This creates a paradox in which the boy Piel becomes linked with the aged space-farer Silbad - essentially becoming him. Silbad was rescued from Perdide 60 years previously by a lone space-traveller who mysteriously found himself at the planet: an event his ship's computer (named Lowry in the English-dubbed version) describes as "the planet's fault."

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The BBC aired an English-language dubbed version in 1987 and 1991 called Time Masters, featuring, amongst others, the voice of Ray Brooks, famous for being the narrator of Mr. Benn. The only versions available on DVD are the French version with English subtitles and the Russian version with French subtitles.

Directed by Rene Laloux, the film was produced largely at the Mid-Pannonian studios in Hungary. The visual design was based on the art of Moebius, otherwise known as Jean Giraud.

The motion picture story is based on the novel L'Orphelin de Perdide (1958) by the French writer Stefan Wul.