FILM DIRECTOR

Raoul Servais

1928 - 2023

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Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is 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). Servais was best known for the animated film, Harpya, for which he won a Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raoul Servais has received more than 46,061 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Raoul Servais is the 649th most popular film director (up from 869th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 521st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Raoul Servais ranks 649 out of 2,041. Before him are Aleksandr Ptushko, David Zucker, Sergio Sollima, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Rob Cohen, and Francis Lawrence. After him are Carmine Gallone, Nancy Meyers, Géza von Radványi, Lawrence Kasdan, Mario Salieri, and Rob Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Raoul Servais ranks 266. Before him are Pilar Lorengar, Maynard Ferguson, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Hubert Selby Jr., Warren Oates, and Paul Johnson. After him are Amata Kabua, Levko Lukianenko, Joan Martí i Alanis, Sven Davidson, William Martínez, and Karl Mai. Among people deceased in 2023, Raoul Servais ranks 278. Before him are Gennady Zhidko, Michel Deville, George Pell, Francisco J. Ayala, Duško Gojković, and Paul Johnson. After him are Terry Dischinger, Veniamin Soldatenko, Trevor Francis, John Pilger, Deniz Baykal, and Angel Wagenstein.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Raoul Servais ranks 455 out of 1,190. Before him are Adriaen Isenbrandt (1490), René Vandereycken (1953), Katherine Swynford (1350), Maurice Peeters (1882), Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), and Louis Gallait (1810). After him are Constant Permeke (1886), Hélène Dutrieu (1877), Adrien-François Servais (1807), Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880), Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830), and Bobbejaan Schoepen (1925).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Raoul Servais ranks 6. Before him are Agnès Varda (1928), Chantal Akerman (1950), Jacques Feyder (1885), André Delvaux (1926), and Jaco Van Dormael (1957). After him are Ulu Grosbard (1929), Gérard Corbiau (1941), Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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Filmography

Harpy
Director
An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.
May 1st 19796.4 / 10
Chromophobia
Director
An invading army destroys all color in a harmless town and brings it in a state of depression. Then a jester arrives.
Sep 1st 19666.4 / 10
Winter Days
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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 collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
Nov 27th 20035.7 / 10