How Wang-Fo Was Saved (1987)

Drama
Animation
Fantasy

Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic perfection. A day comes when he thinks he has achieved it. But his genius arouses both the curiosity and the jealousy of the Emperor. Wang Fo will be able to escape the Emperor's vindictiveness only by going to the limit of his talents.

Cast

Ling (voice)
Olivier Cruveiller
L'empereur (voice)
Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Crew

Director
René Laloux
Novel
Marguerite Yourcenar
Adaptation
René Laloux
Producer
M Michel Noll
Executive Producer
E Evelyne Toledano
Executive Producer
R Rolande Zuratas
Original Music Composer
Alain Goraguer
Original Music Composer
Gabriel Yared
Editor
C Christine Pansu
Production Design
Philippe Caza
Sound mixer
A Alain Garnier
Screenplay
René Laloux
Writer
René Laloux
Art Direction
Philippe Caza
Decorator
Philippe Caza