Synopsis
Once there was a boy named Titus whose adoptive parents decided to lock him in a cellar with nothing but a TV set, a VCR and 500 cartoon videos for company. Twenty years later, Titus escapes. To him, the outside world is just one giant amusement park.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Fit Production
- Foreign production company : Cinépix
- French distribution : Les Films de l'Atalante
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Pierre Ramsay Levi
- Screenwriters : Vincent De Brus, Stéphane Giusti
- Dialogue Writer : Guy Zilberstein
- Director of Photography : Michel Abramowicz
- Music Composer : Hadi Kalafate
- Editor : Marie-Blanche Colonna
- Sound recordists : Patrick Rousseau, Hans Peter Strobl, Viateur Paiement
- Costume designer : Véronique Périer
- Foreign Producer : Christian Larouche
- Production Manager : Jean-Yves Asselin
- Production Designer : Yan Arlaud
- Still Photographer : Nathalie Eno
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Canada, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Canada, France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 15/07/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.263
- Visa issue date : 16/07/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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About
La Ballade de Titus is a story that addresses a worrying, contemporary issue—the right to be different. Although it's a serious subject, we decided to deal with it in a humorous vein, using the very special tone and register of burlesque fable. Because fable it is. Watching Titus means entering a world where ‘wild’ children are in fact ‘cartoon’ kids, where psychiatrists turn out to be crazier than their patients, and potentates much nastier. I love Titus like a brother, he's the unwilling hero of the film. I love his exuberant energy, his open-mindedness, his completely crazy humor, and above all his total lack of inhibition which allows him to do certain things we all think about but morally condemn. - Vincent de Brus, press book
