Dive into the phantasmagorical world of the illustrator Grandville!
Queen fans may know him—one of his drawings, The Juggler of Worlds, inspired the cover of the band’s final album, Innuendo. Some even believe that the same image influenced the famous globe-juggling scene in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator.

This 19th-century political cartoonist, disillusioned by censorship, first turned to children's illustration before publishing his own collections of fantastical imagery. Let yourself be swept away by an eccentric interviewer into the Other World of this astonishing artist!

Its creator, Grandville, born in 1803, was first and foremost a committed caricaturist and a fierce defender of press freedom. He sharply criticized the final days of the monarchy with biting wit. A child of the French Revolution and a friend of Balzac, he drew the ire of censors by lampooning King Louis-Philippe and his repressive regime. Disheartened by political satire, he later turned to illustrating literary classics such as La Fontaine’s Fables, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver’s Travels. But the loss of his first wife and children led him to retreat further into solitude. His later works celebrate nature and dreams, rejecting the materialist values of his era.

Yet Grandville’s time still resonates with our own, as does the power of today’s cartoonists to shed light on political realities.

This journey into the visionary artist’s dreamlike universe is guided by his own characters—especially the Elephant, one of his anthropomorphic creations. Blending live-action footage with animation, and weaving together past and present, the film highlights the lasting power and relevance of Grandville’s work.