Avalon (2001 film)

Avalon (Japanese: アヴァロン, Hepburn: Avaron), also known as Gate to Avalon, is a 2001 Polish-language science fiction drama film directed by Mamoru Oshii and written by Kazunori Itō. An international co-production of Japan and Poland, the film stars Małgorzata Foremniak as Ash, a player in an illegal virtual reality video game whose sense of reality is challenged as she attempts to unravel the true nature and purpose of the game.

Avalon
Polish release poster
Directed byMamoru Oshii
Screenplay byKazunori Itō
Produced byAtsushi Kubo
StarringMałgorzata Foremniak
Dariusz Biskupski
CinematographyGrzegorz Kędzierski
Edited byHiroshi Okuda
Music byKenji Kawai
Production
companies
Deiz Production
Bandai Visual
Media Factory
Dentsu
Nippon Herald Films
Distributed byNippon Herald Films (Japan)
A-Film Distribution (Poland)
Release dates
  • 20 January 2001 (2001-01-20) (Japan)
  • 12 April 2002 (2002-04-12) (Poland)
Running time
106 minutes
Countries
  • Japan
  • Poland
LanguagePolish
Budget$8 million
Box office$449,275

Avalon was filmed in Wrocław, Nowa Huta, the Modlin Fortress and Warsaw. The 2009 film Assault Girls that was written and directed by Oshii, is a stand-alone sequel set in the same fictional universe as Avalon.

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