The Ballad of Titus

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The Ballad of Titus
French La ballade de Titus
Directed byVincent De Brus
Written byVincent De Brus
Stéphane Giusti
Produced by Christian Larouche
Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi
Starring Michel Courtemanche
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Catherine Jacob
Cinematography Michel Abramowicz
Edited byMarie-Blanche Colonna
Music byHadi Kalafate
Production
companies
Cinépix
FIT Productions
Distributed byLes Films de l'Atalante
Release date
  • 17 July 1997 (1997-07-17)
Running time
90 min
CountriesFrance
Canada
LanguageFrench

The Ballad of Titus (French : La ballade de Titus) is a 1997 French-Canadian co-produced comedy film, directed by Vincent De Brus.

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Plot

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.

Cast

Production

The movie was first released in Germany, 17 July 1997, and then in France, 15 July 1998. [1]

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References

  1. "La ballade de Titus (1997) - Release Info". IMDb . Retrieved 19 July 2015.