query: country_of_origin the perils of gwendoline in the land of the yik-yak
supports: François Schuiten (born 26 April 1956) is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the series "Les Cités Obscures". Just Jaeckin (August 8, 1940, Vichy, Allier) is a French film director. Brent Huff (born March 11, 1961) is a model, actor, writer and film director. A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film. The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik - Yak , original title Gwendoline , is a 1984 French action / sexploitation film directed by Just Jaeckin , written by Jaeckin and John Willie and starring Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff . The film is loosely based on the bondage - themed comics of Willie and on the figure of Gwendoline . François Schuiten worked as a graphic designer for the movie . The story concerns Gwendoline ( Kitaen ) , a woman who , accompanied by a soldier of fortune , Willard ( Huff ) , and her French maid ( Zabou ) , journeys deep into the jungle and desert to capture a butterfly that has eluded her late father 's scientific quest . They eventually discover the lost underground realm of the Yik - Yak , an all - female society ruled by a queen who plans to kill Willard after he mates with a female gladiator champion . Severin Films has re-released the 88 minutes U.S. release of The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik - Yak and released a 106 minutes Gwendoline : Unrated Director 's Cut based on the French release . Les Cités obscures (literally The Obscure Cities, but initially published in English as Cities of the Fantastic) is a graphic novel series set on a Counter-Earth, started by the Belgian comics artist François Schuiten and his friend, writer Benoît Peeters in the early 1980s. In this fictional world, humans live in independent city-states, each of which has developed a distinct civilization, each characterized by a distinctive architectural style. Allier (is a French department located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France named after the river Allier. Moulins is the prefecture and the INSEE and Post Code is 03. Vichy (is a city in the Allier department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais.
candidates: belgian european union france
answer: france