Long synopsis : In an imaginary central European city, the highly addictive computer game Avalon offers lavish financial rewards as well as a dangerous and seductive escape from the bleak realities of everyday life. Ash is a professional, a highly skilled player moving back and forth between actual and virtual realities with ease. A loner, estranged from her fellow man, Ash is close only to her beloved pet dog. Ghost is an Avalon character, a target who appears as a young girl. On-screen contact with Ghost has left previous players - including Ash's former lover Murphy - terminally damaged. Devoid of all consciousness and condemned to waste away in a sanatorium, they are known as The Lost.

Cast

• Malgorzata Foremniak, Wlysysam Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski, Bartek Swiderski

Crew

• Director(s): Mamoru Oshii
• Screenplay: Katarzyna Bargietowska, Kazunori Ito
• DP: Grzegorz Kedzierski
• Original Music: Kenji Kawai

• Original Title: AVALON
• Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction


• Production company: BANDAI VISUAL CO LTD, DENTSU INC, MEDIA FACTORY INC, NIPPON HERALD FILMS INC
• Production date: 2001
• Language: Polish
• Duration: 108 min
• Image Ratio: 1.85
• Sound Info: Dolby SR / SRD / DTS

• Festival de Cannes 2001
  Award(s) : Out of Competition
• Sitges Film Festival 2002
  Award(s) : Best Cinematography
• BFI London Film Festival 2001
  
• Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2001
  
• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002
  
• Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2002
  
• Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy 2002
  
• Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2002