Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Son of the White Mare (1981) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: György Cserhalmi, Pap Vera, Gyula Szabó, Mari Szemes, Ferenc Szalma, Szabolcs Toth DIRECTOR: Marcell Jankovics CINEMATOGRAPHY: Zoltán Bacsó MUSIC: István Vajda PRODUCTION: Pannónia Filmstúdió

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Son of the White Mare (1981). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

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The film was made from 1979 to 1981. It was the second animated feature-length film of Jankovics.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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CRITICAL RECEPTION

Son of the White Mare was placed #49 on the Olympiad of Animation in 1984. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100 based on 5 critic reviews, indicating "Universal Acclaim".

Animation historian Charles Solomon (who first saw it at an Academy screening in 1983) listed it, under the title The White Mare's Son, as one of the best animated films of the 1980s.

The film, under the title The White Mare, premiered at the Los Angeles International Animation Celebration in September 1985.

It soon became a cult classic whose followers include Disney animator Roger Allers (who hired Jankovics for Kingdom of the Sun, before eventually becoming The Emperor's New Groove, after he saw the film screened by Solomon via a bootleg copy) and Aeon Flux creator Peter Chung (who first saw it in 1984).