The Son of the Stars

Local title
Tähepoiss
Original title
Fiul stelelor
Director
Calin Cazan, Mircea Toia
Country
Romania
Year
1988
Festival
HÕFF 2024
Programme
HÕFF Retro
Genre
cartoon
Subject
retro

In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from a female astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son, Dan, on board their ship while they go searching for the missing woman — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.

"Like Cazan’s and Toia’s marvellous Delta Space Mission, The Son of the Stars gets more freakadelic as Dan grows up à la Luke Skywalker, encountering giant disembodied eyeballs, a world of massive decaying Cubist structures, floating purple tentacles, and alien-headed cosmic flowers, and even a sword-wielding medieval Space Knight in armor. His visions of his lost parents and the missing cosmonaut are especially psychedelic, a phantasmagoric blend of Hanna-Barbera and Tarkovsky’s Solaris." - Mercedes Milligan, Animation Magazine 2022

Director
Calin Cazan, Mircea Toia
Screenwriter
Calin Cazan, Mircea Toia
DoP
Calin Cazan, Mircea Toia
Editor
Calin Cazan, Mircea Toia
Composer
Stefan Elefteriu
Production
Romanian Film Centre
Distributor
Romanian National Film Archive
Runtime
Language
Romanian
Subtitles
English

Screenings

Keldrisaal Haapsalu kultuurikeskus
Screening019301 / Tähepoiss
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer
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