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1988 film
The Son of the Stars
Directed byMircea Toia, Călin Cazan, Dan Chisovsky
Written byMircea Toia
Produced bySilvia Florescu
StarringIon Caramitru, Virgil Ogășanu, Mircea Albulescu, Mirela Gorea, Ovidiu Schumacher, Marcel Iureș
CinematographyRoxana Mihalcea
Music byȘtefan Elefteriu
Production
company		Animafilm
Distributed byRomâniafilm
Release date
  • 17 October 1988 (1988-10-17)
Running time79 minutes
CountryRomania
LanguageRomanian

The Son of the Stars (original Romanian title: Fiul stelelor) is a 1988 Romanian science fiction animation film directed and written by Mircea Toia. The screenplay is inspired by the novel The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. The Son of the Stars combines elements of science fiction with elements from fairy tales, being made with a small team and a low budget.

Plot

The story takes place in the distant future (around the year 6470) and follows the adventures of a little boy, born on a spaceship, who is separated from his parents on the way back to Earth.

Cast

  • Mihai Cafrița (voice) — Dan
  • Ion Caramitru (voice) — Narrator
  • Virgil Ogășanu (voice) — Alex, Dan's father
  • Mircea Albulescu (voice) — Van Kleef
  • Mirela Gorea (voice) — Roxana, Dan's mother
  • Ovidiu Schumacher (voice) — Nod
  • Marcel Iureș (voice) — BOB, a supercomputer
  • Alexandrina Halic (voice) — Bu
  • Valeria Ogășanu (voice) — Dan in childhood
  • Mihai Niculescu (voice) — Knight
  • Constantin Diplan (voice) — Skyl
  • Ștefan Sileanu (voice) — No

References

  1. Debbie Diamond Sarto, Restored 1987 Romanian Animated Sci-fi 'The Son of The Stars' Coming to Blu-Ray, awn.com, February 7, 2023
  2. Dinu-Ioan Nicula, Călătorie în lumea animației românești, Editura Meridiane, București, 1997, p. 51. ISBN 973-33-0365-8
  3. ***, „Neu in unseren Kinos: «Der Sohn der Sterne (Fiul stelelor)»”, în Neuer Weg, București, anul XL, nr. 12.253, sâmbătă 22 octombrie 1988, p. 4.
  4. Elena Vlădăreanu, Călin Cazan (13 martie 2023), „O animație românească science-fiction din 1987, «Fiul Stelelor», lansată pe BluRay în copie restaurată 4K (interviu audio în cadrul emisiunii „Scena și ecranul", 15:28 min.)” Radio România Cultural
  5. Andrea Virginás, Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema History, Theory, and Reception, Lexington Books, Lanham, 2021, pp. 61–62

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