During an evening walk, Mr. Oscar is witness of an aggression. He knocks the man down while he is trying to drown his victim in a fountain. To his astonishment he discovers that he saved the life of a harpy… —Festival de Cannes
Raoul Servais was born in Ostend in 1928. He studied Decorative Arts at the Ghent Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where, fifteen years later, he was to become the founder of the European continent’s first department for animation. Though Servais practices drawing and occasionally monumental wall-painting, he is best known as maker of some twelve animated films, which won him several prizes at most major international film festivals. —awn.com
Durante un paseo nocturno, un hombre llamado Oscar cree presenciar la agresión por parte de un sujeto a una mujer a quién intenta ahogar en una fuente; Oscar interviene y la rescata, pero pronto descubre que la presunta victima es en realidad una mitica arpia. A pesar del insolito hecho, decide llevarla a su casa, lo que traera consigo espantosas consecuencias. Terror y fantasia se combinan en este estupendo corto ganador en el festival de Cannes de 1979. De atmosfera tan lugubre como bizarra, este estupendo trabajo de Raoul Servais se destaca, aparte de su muy atractiva presentación visual, por sus logros en el aspecto tecnico al combinar animación con actores reales, con resultados verdaderamente notables.
