How Wang-Fo Was Saved

7.0

Genre: Drama Animation Fantasy
Run time: 15 min
Premiere: 1987. January 1.

Director: René Laloux
Writer: Marguerite Yourcenar René Laloux
Starring: Olivier Cruveiller Jean-Claude Dreyfus

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.