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The Horsemen(Movie, 1971)

PG
| 1h 49min | Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
The HorsemenRating: 3.5/5 (with 77 votes)
The Horsemen is a 1971 American adventure film starring Omar Sharif, directed by John Frankenheimer; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. Based on a 1967 novel by French writer Joseph Kessel, Les Cavaliers (The Horsemen) shows Afghanistan and its people the way they were before the wars that wracked the country, particularly their love for the sport of buzkashi. The film was filmed in Afghanistan and Spain. ()
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About The Horsemen

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their clans is determined less by wealth or even military power (both rare) then by victories in the ancient, though game of buskashi, a vicious form of polo dating back to Genghis Khan, in which the chapendaz (participating horsemen) use their horse-whips on both mounts and rivals in a ruthless fight for a heavy 'ball', a dead calf, which must be carried a long way, almost impossible with all the others mercilessly assailing. Tursen, a former champion, now holds the status of village notable thanks to his position as stable-keeper of the regional lord Osman Bey, and has finally bred a horse without equal, the white stallion Jahil, in time for the royal tournament on the plain of Bagrami, just outside the capital Kabul...

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Afghanistan
Based on: "The Horsemen" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date US: 08/16/1971
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Les cavaliers"

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