The Ballad of Titus | |
Native Name: | |
Director: | Vincent De Brus |
Producer: | Christian Larouche Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi |
Starring: | Michel Courtemanche Jean-Claude Dreyfus Catherine Jacob |
Music: | Hadi Kalafate |
Cinematography: | Michel Abramowicz |
Editing: | Marie-Blanche Colonna |
Studio: | Cinépix FIT Productions |
Distributor: | Les Films de l'Atalante |
Runtime: | 90 min |
Country: | France Canada |
Language: | French |
The Ballad of Titus (French: La ballade de Titus) is a 1997 French-Canadian co-produced comedy film, directed by Vincent De Brus.
Burlesque fable addressing a serious subject : the right to difference through the adventures of Titus from a young age was locked in the basement by his adoptive parents with only companions a television, a VCR and five hundred cartoons cassettes. We find him twenty years later in the clinic of the terrible Dr. Schrink. But there, thwarting the plans of the wicked, he meets the love and glory soon.
The movie was first released in Germany, 17 July 1997, and then in France, 15 July 1998.[1]