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{{quote| ''In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved.''}}

''[[Gandahar]]'' (known as ''Light Years'' in English) is a 1988 animated film by the master of French arthouse animation, René Laloux, based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon's French [[Science Fiction]] novel ''Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar'' (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar).

In the distant future and on a distant planet, the country of Gandahar goes by life in peace and harmony with nature and each other. The blissful existence is interrupted when Gandahar is attacked by bizarre, man-machine enemies who capture the civilians and return them through the portal encased in metal and brainwashed. Queen Ambisextra and her loyal Council of Women choose Sylvain, a young warrior to scout out what could be causing this. He travels the land in search of the cause with young beauty Airelle, eventually falling in love on the way. Meeting mutants and the giant mutant brain Metamorphasis, Sylvain is caught in a troublesome [[Time Paradox]].

The history of the movie is odd and star-studded. After the success of the equally bizarre ''[[Fantastic Planet]]'', Laloux tried for many years to get the ''Gandahar'' project off the ground. He did not succeed until a North Korean animation studio unexpectedly offered to animate his movie for cheap. Harvey Weinstein picked up rights for the American release and had [[Isaac Asimov]] (yes, ''[[Isaac Asimov|that]]'' Isaac Asimov) do the English translation. Definitely not a cartoon meant for the kiddies, ''Gandahar'' has been released in the "Masters of Cinema" series without any Region 1 DVD to date.

* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: By way of censorship. In the original, Airelle and Sylvain are seen together in bed the next morning and there's a shot of Sylvain taking his shirt off the night before, but the English dub cuts this so the exact nature of their relationship is far more ambiguous.

* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!]]: [[Penn and& Teller]] in the englishEnglish dub.

* [[Nipple -and -Dimed]]: Averted in the original, hard. According to Laloux the North Korean animators had to be shown certain French magazines to draw all of the women, since law there restricts such resources harshly.