Director
Marcell Jankovics
Cast
György Cserhalmi, Vera Pap, Gyula Szabó
Edition 2022
86'
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1981
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Fantasy, Adventure
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Dialogue:
Hungarian
On the mountain peaks of the animation medium rests this giant of a film, ready to share its dreams with a new generation of admirers. Son of the White Mare splashes off the screen like a modernist rock painting.
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors’ lost kingdom.
“Son of the White Mare, like all fables, is about the oldest and most primary human urges, creation and destruction, and Jankovics manifests that endless cosmic cycle as his own animated dreamscape. (...) One of the absolute pinnacles of animation, (...) a masterpiece of the medium.” - Slant
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Credits
Directors
Marcell Jankovics
Cast
György Cserhalmi, Vera Pap, Gyula Szabó
Scenario
Marcell Jankovics, László György
Director of Photography
Zoltán Bacsó
Editors
Magda Hap, Mária Kern, Valéria Pauka, Judit Szarvas
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Dialogue
Hungarian
Countries of production
Hungary
Year
1981
Filmography
Marcell Jankovics
Trends (short, 1967), Álmok szárnyán (short, 1968), Inauguration (short, 1969), Deep Waters (short, 1970), The Satiric Eye (short, 1971), Mással beszélnek (short, 1971), Johnny Corncob (1973), Sisyphus (short, 1974), The Struggle (short, 1977), Kacor király (1978), Son of the White Mare (1981), Prometheus (short, 1992), Song of the Miraculous Hind (2002), The Tragedy of Man (2011)