Taxandria

Story

Synopsis

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 typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

Director

Raoul Servais

Writers

Frank Daniel, Raoul Servais, Alain Robbe-Grillet

Language

English

Country

Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands

Release date

21 February 1996

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Armin Mueller-Stahl

  Karol / Virgilus

• 

  Elliott Spiers

  Aimé Perel

• 

  Katja Studt

  Princess Ailée

• Richard Kattan

  Jan

• 

  Julien Schoenaerts

  Mr. Bonze

• 

  Andrew Sachs

  André / Superintendent

• 

  Daniel Emilfork

  First Minister

• 

  Cris Campion

  Klooster

• Robert Lemaire

  Lamp

• Joris Van Ransbeeck

  Versalus

• Ferenc Dávid Kiss

  Taxandrian

• Zsuzsa Holl

  Leading Lady