Equus(Movie, 1977)

Name: Equus
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 1977
Duration: T02:17:00
Rating: 3.6

| 2h 17min | Genres: Drama, Mystery

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 60 votes)

Equus is a 1977 psychological drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his play of the same name. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter. The story concerns a psychiatrist treating a teenager who has blinded horses in a stable, attempting to find the root of his horse worship. Lumet's translation of the acclaimed play to a cinematic version incorporated some realism, in the use of real horses as opposed to human actors, and a graphic portrayal of the blinding. Despite some criticism of this approach, the film received positive reviews, with awards for Burton, Firth and Agutter. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Equus

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About Equus

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

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Equus (1977) ORIGINAL Trailer [HD 1080p](Trailer, 2:01)

Equus (1977) ORIGINAL Trailer [HD 1080p] (Trailer) | Equus - Original Cinema Trailer (Trailer)

Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Ontario

Plays in: Hampshire

Based on the work of: Peter Shaffer ("Equus")

Made by: United Artists, Winkast Film Productions, Persky-Bright Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 15 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/16/1977

Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, John Wyman, Kate Reid

Director: Sidney Lumet

Producer: Elliott Kastner, Lester Persky

Screenwriter: Peter Shaffer

Film Editor: John Victor Smith

Director of Photography: Oswald Morris

Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett

Keywords: psychiatrist, horse

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Equus(Movie, 1977)

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