Le Balcon

The Composer's Cut & Le Balcon present : La Planète Sauvage - Ciné-concert

La Planète Sauvage, a film by René Laloux
Screenplay by René Laloux and Roland Topor, based on Stefan Wul's Oms en Série
Drawings by Roland Topor
Produced at Krátký Film's Jiří Trnka animation studios in Prague

Original music by Alain Goraguer
Arrangement and original music: Nitai Hershkovits, with the agreement and support of Alain Goraguer 
Art direction and adaptation for Le Balcon: Othman Louati
Executive production: Zack Bar & Raz Olsher (Composer's Cut), Gaspard Kiejman (Le Balcon)
Thanks to Patrick Goraguer

Winner of the Jury's Special Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, La Planète Sauvage is a marvel of French animation. Directed by René Laloux and based on hundreds of original drawings by Roland Topor, the film tells the supernatural story of a cosmic tribe, the Draags, who have enslaved mankind. Faced with these dreamlike, blue-skinned, red-eyed creatures, humans eventually find the means to revolt. Alain Goraguer's music, a unique blend of psychedelic rock, experimental jazz and chiselled orchestration, has had a major influence on film music. Sampled dozens of times, it has also inspired artists such as Madlib (Quasimoto), J Dilla, Flying Lotus and DJ Shadow.

In 2021, pianist Nitai Hershkovits proposed a new adaptation of this original music, approved by the composer before his death. In collaboration with composer Othman Louati, this version will be adjusted and adapted for Le Balcon's instrumentalists.