Synopsis
The story unfolds in a small town in Hungary, in 1914. The Witman Boys, Janos, 14, and Erno, 12, are confronted with the death of their father. They find themselves alone with a young maid-servant and their mother Mrs Witman, a beautiful woman more concerned about her lover who's rapidly moved in, than her children. The boys, left to their own devices, conjure themselves up a strange and violent world.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : 47ème Parallèle
- Foreign production companies : Mafilm, Studio Filmowe Zebra, Budapest Filmstudio, Hungarian Television, MTM Communication
- French distribution : 47ème Parallèle
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Jànos Szàsz
- Director of Photography : Tibor Mathe
- Editor : Anna Kornis
- Sound Recordist : Istvan Sipos
- Costume designer : Agnes Jodàl
- Author of original work : Geza Csath
- Press Attaché (film) : Fabienne Ferreira-Barbosa
- Production Designer : Jozsef Romvàry
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Hungarian
- Coproducer countries : Hungary, Poland, Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Hungary, Poland, Germany, France)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 09/07/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 33 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.669
- Visa issue date : 13/08/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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"I wanted to show a process that could possibly lead to matricide via absent or abnormal, strange or moving human relations, via the intertwining of reality with a pretty violent imaginary world. I wasn't interested in showing the violence of the Witman Boys' world at its crudest, its most brutal. Instead I sought a particular rhythm of colours tending towards black and white, so as to allow the viewer to have a certain visual freedom... that is, to contemplate, participate in, and "see from inside" what the images contain and suggest. In "The Witman Boys", as in my previous films, I am seeking "a particular way" of bringing such peculiar atmospheres to the screen; atmospheres which fascinate me, but to which I don't necessarily subscribe. For me, they are inklings of the murkiness of human history." (Janos Szasz)