New Teaser for Misplaced Romanian Sci-Fi Animation ‘The Son of the Stars’
by Alex Billington
February 5, 2023
Supply: YouTube
This seems rad!! Deaf Crocodile Movies & Vinegar Syndrome have introduced a restoration Blu-ray re-release of a protracted misplaced, not often seen Romanian animated movie known as The Son of the Stars. This initially debuted in 1985 and confirmed up within the US in 1987, however hasn’t been seen since. The movie is getting an HD model primarily based on a brand new 4K scan from the unique 35mm destructive and sound parts, with a digital restoration by Deaf Crocodile Movies. From the identical filmmakers because the marvelous Delta House Mission, The Son of the Stars will get extra freakadelic as Dan grows up ala Luke Skywalker, encountering large disembodied eyeballs, a world of large decaying Cubist buildings, floating purple tentacles, and alien-headed cosmic flowers, and even a sword-wielding medieval House Knight in armor. Utilizing the voices of Mircea Albulescu, Mihai Cafrita, Ion Caramitru, Mirela Gorea-Chelaru, and Virgil Ogasanu. “His visions of his misplaced mother and father and the lacking cosmonaut are particularly psychedelic, a phantasmagoric mix of Hanna-Barbera and Tarkovsky’s Solaris.” I am SO in for this!! There’s not a lot footage on this teaser, however it’s sufficient for me. I’ve to look at.
This is the re-release teaser (+ poster) for Romanian animation The Son of the Stars, from YouTube:
“The Son of the Stars (Fiul Stelelor / Ultima Misiune) is a really superb fusion of various types and storytelling traditions in animation, from Japanese European mythology with sword-wielding medieval House Knights, to early 80s Japanese anime, to traditional lost-child narratives like Tarzan and The Jungle E-book,” says Deaf Crocodile Co-Founder / Head of Acquisitions & Distribution, Dennis Bartok. “In fact, comparisons to George Lucas and the Star Wars universe are very sturdy as effectively — however the unimaginable factor is how distinctive, psychedelic, and extremely entertaining Călin Cazan & Mircea Toia’s synthesis of all these parts is in [the movie]. For followers of Eighties animation and sci-fi, it is a main rediscovery.”
A wild and surreal outer area journey – coming to Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome. A mid-80s mash-up of The Empire Strikes Again, Alien, and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan. Within the yr 6470, a husband and spouse workforce of explorers obtain a mysterious misery sign from an astronaut who disappeared a long time earlier. They depart their son on board ship to seek for the lacking astronaut – however destiny intervenes, their very own ship crashes – leaving their son alone – or is he? The Son of the Stars, often known as Fiul Stelelor in Romanian, is co-directed by the Romanian animation filmmakers Calin Cazan & Mircea Toia, who additionally directed the 1984 animated movie Delta House Mission earlier than this. Co-directed by Dan Chisovski. That includes music by synth-rock pioneer Stefan Elefteriu. “The Son of the Stars is one other long-lost gem of Romanian animation, newly scanned in 4K by the Romanian Movie Archive and the Romanian Movie Centre, with digital restoration by Craig Rogers of Deaf Crocodile.” The Blu-ray launch of this lengthy misplaced sci-fi can be out there in late February 2023 – pre-order now from Vinegar Syndrome. Has anybody seen this? Who needs to look at?
