The Horsemen

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Mike W 11/11/2022 Jack Palance and Omar Sharif at their best. The movie was brutal even without killing and guns. See more 02/04/2022 Uraz (Omar Sharif) is the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), a stable master and retired buzkashi player, a sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. He has lost his honor when he breaks his leg in a game that his father has bet all of the family's money on, which means he has to learn how to ride and play again, despite most of his leg. Based on Joseph Kessel's Les cavaliers, this was scripted by Dalton Trumbo and directed by John Frankenheimer, who loved the movie even if it wasn't a financial success. There's a lot of animal violence in this, so be warned. I mean, it's a game played with a dead animal, after all. The same game is played in Rambo III, in case you wondered. Like that movie, the Afghanistan of this film is long gone. It's a big Hollywood film about a sport and a place that I can imagine very few people were interested in, which makes me interested in it. See more 04/21/2013 The Horsemen takes its rightful place, if gawkily so, among Frankenheimer's best films See more 05/28/2012 a stunning film, inspired by epic adventure and timeless conflicts! See more 04/02/2010 A bounding Exploitation Movie about a extremly violent Afghan Sport with beautiful Pictures of the Afghan Mountains See more 08/04/2009 One of the only movies about BUZKASHI, the national sport of Afghanistan. This sport had been banned by the Taliban and within one month of the ouster of the Taliban government, Buzkashi was being played in Afghanistan. Excellent for cultural understanding of the Afghan people. See more Read all reviews

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