Raoul Servais

Raoul Servais (1928–2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator, and comics artist. He was a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). Born in Ostend, Servais was awarded with Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016. At the 9th Magritte Awards, Servais received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux.

Winter Days (2003)

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Isao Takahata  •  Koji Yamamura  •  Kihachiro Kawamoto  •  Jacques Drouin  •  Co Hoedeman  •  Yōichi Kotabe  •  Yuri Norstein  •  Raoul Servais  •  Shinichi Suzuki  •  Keita Kurosaka  •  Aleksandr Petrov  •  Mark Baker  •  Břetislav Pojar  •  Youji Kuri  •  Reiko Okuyama  •  Yuichi Ito  •  Wang Borong
CAST:  Ryuta Kashiwagi  •  Kyôko Kishida  •  Noboru Mitani  •  Joe Watanabe

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Isao Takahata  •  Koji Yamamura  •  Kihachiro Kawamoto  •  Jacques Drouin  •  Co Hoedeman  •  Yōichi Kotabe  •  Yuri Norstein  •  Raoul Servais  •  Shinichi Suzuki  •  Keita Kurosaka  •  Aleksandr Petrov  •  Mark Baker  •  Břetislav Pojar  •  Youji Kuri  •  Reiko Okuyama  •  Yuichi Ito  •  Wang Borong
CAST:  Ryuta Kashiwagi  •  Kyôko Kishida  •  Noboru Mitani  •  Joe Watanabe

Pegasus (1973)

A farmer accidentally creates a self-procreating iron Pegasus.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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A farmer accidentally creates a self-procreating iron Pegasus.  (more)

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To Speak or Not to Speak (1972)

In a world where people are easily indoctrinated by speech, a reporter wants to know what people think about the actual political situation?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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In a world where people are easily indoctrinated by speech, a reporter wants to know what people think about the actual political situation?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Nocturnal Butterflies (1998)

Nocturnal Butterflies is Servais' serene and melancholic homage to Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), whose architectural paintings serve as the basis for the mise-en-scène for the film, and whose opaquely gazed women represent the enigmatic, silent ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Nocturnal Butterflies is Servais' serene and melancholic homage to Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), whose architectural paintings serve as the basis for the mise-en-scène for the film, and whose opaquely gazed women represent the enigmatic, silent ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Sirene (1968)

Monsterlike cranes reign over an inhospitable harbour as prehistorical reptiles. The only human being they accept is a lonesome fisherman. He is to witness a strange encounter between a ship's mate and a mermaid. Imagination or reality?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Monsterlike cranes reign over an inhospitable harbour as prehistorical reptiles. The only human being they accept is a lonesome fisherman. He is to witness a strange encounter between a ship's mate and a mermaid. Imagination or reality?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Harpy (1979)

An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Will Spoor  •  Fran Waller Zeper  •  Sjoert Schwibethus

An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Will Spoor  •  Fran Waller Zeper  •  Sjoert Schwibethus

Operation X-70 (1971)

A powerful nation has experimented with a new gas, which does not kill or injure the asphyxiated subjects, only puts them in a lethargic and mystical state. X-70 gas bombs will be dropped by mistake over Nebelux and provoke an unexpected mutation of the population ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Arthur Sharr  •  James Humphry  •  Leonard Cohen  •  Albert Eric Kaufman

A powerful nation has experimented with a new gas, which does not kill or injure the asphyxiated subjects, only puts them in a lethargic and mystical state. X-70 gas bombs will be dropped by mistake over Nebelux and provoke an unexpected mutation of the population ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Arthur Sharr  •  James Humphry  •  Leonard Cohen  •  Albert Eric Kaufman

Chromophobia (1966)

An invading army destroys all color in a harmless town and brings it in a state of depression. Then a jester arrives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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An invading army destroys all color in a harmless town and brings it in a state of depression. Then a jester arrives.  (more)

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Goldframe (1969)

Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It's his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants to be faster than his shadow. One evening he succeeds…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Arthur Sharr

Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It's his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants to be faster than his shadow. One evening he succeeds…  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Arthur Sharr

Attraction (2001)

A group of convicts slowly drag their balls and chains through a desolate landscape. One of them discovers a strange structure and decides to climb it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Marq Rawls

A group of convicts slowly drag their balls and chains through a desolate landscape. One of them discovers a strange structure and decides to climb it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Marq Rawls

Tank (2014)

Inspired by the poem “Le Tank” by Pierre Jean Jouve, this film is a free interpretation of the first tank attack during the first World War.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Inspired by the poem “Le Tank” by Pierre Jean Jouve, this film is a free interpretation of the first tank attack during the first World War.  (more)

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Servais (2018)

Documentary on the Belgian animation filmer Raoul Servais.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rudy Pinceel
CAST:  Raoul Servais  •  François Schuiten

Documentary on the Belgian animation filmer Raoul Servais.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rudy Pinceel
CAST:  Raoul Servais  •  François Schuiten

The False Note (1963)

A day in the life of an organ grinder, down on his luck, who wanders the streets of Paris, dreaming of what might be. He can't help but crank out the occasional false note, just often enough to enrage his listeners and discourage any donations. He dreams of playing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Werner Edebau

A day in the life of an organ grinder, down on his luck, who wanders the streets of Paris, dreaming of what might be. He can't help but crank out the occasional false note, just often enough to enrage his listeners and discourage any donations. He dreams of playing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Werner Edebau

Omleiding November (1963)

On a November day a man deposits a flower garland for his old car at the junk yard. But the place appears to be a labyrinth in which he gets lost.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Werner Edebau

On a November day a man deposits a flower garland for his old car at the junk yard. But the place appears to be a labyrinth in which he gets lost.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Werner Edebau

Servaisgraphia (1992)

Short film on Raoul Servais' Servaisgrafie process/invention.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Benoît Peeters  •  Pierre Drouot
CAST:  Raoul Servais

Short film on Raoul Servais' Servaisgrafie process/invention.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Benoît Peeters  •  Pierre Drouot
CAST:  Raoul Servais

Taxandria (1996)

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Armin Mueller-Stahl  •  Elliott Spiers  •  Katja Studt  •  Richard Kattan

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Armin Mueller-Stahl  •  Elliott Spiers  •  Katja Studt  •  Richard Kattan

Havenlichten (1959)

In a coastal village a faulty street lantern lands on the rubbish yard. During a storm a fishermen's boat is in trouble. The big lighthouse has fallen asleep, but the street lantern saves the boat.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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In a coastal village a faulty street lantern lands on the rubbish yard. During a storm a fishermen's boat is in trouble. The big lighthouse has fallen asleep, but the street lantern saves the boat.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Halewyn’s Song (1976)

Sir Halewyn’s magical song lures girls from afar to his gloomy forest, from where none returns. Based on a medieval song.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Sir Halewyn’s magical song lures girls from afar to his gloomy forest, from where none returns. Based on a medieval song.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
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Der lange Kerl

November 1914, the front in Flanders. In a partially destroyed aid station, the wounded French soldier François is the only one left. He lies on a field bed and has an open wound in the side. Suddenly, he sees the silhouette of a figure with a pointed helmet on its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Matthieu Sys  •  Gilles De Schryver

November 1914, the front in Flanders. In a partially destroyed aid station, the wounded French soldier François is the only one left. He lies on a field bed and has an open wound in the side. Suddenly, he sees the silhouette of a figure with a pointed helmet on its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Servais
CAST:  Matthieu Sys  •  Gilles De Schryver