

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 freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.
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Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl
Karol / Virgilus
Elliott Spiers
Aimé Perel

Katja Studt
Princess Ailée
Richard Kattan
Jan

Julien Schoenaerts
Mr. Bonze

Andrew Sachs
André / Superintendent

Daniel Emilfork
First Minister

Cris Campion
Klooster
Robert Lemaire
Lamp
Joris Van Ransbeeck
Versalus
Ferenc Dávid Kiss
Taxandrian
Zsuzsa Holl
Leading Lady
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