Equus - blind horses
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Equus - blind horses |
| Original title | Equus |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 137 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sidney Lumet |
| script | Peter Shaffer |
| production |
Denis Holt Elliot Kastner Lester Persky |
| music | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| camera | Oswald Morris |
| cut | John Victor Smith |
| occupation | |
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Equus - Blind Horses (alternate title: Fleeing Horses) is a British film directed by Sidney Lumet . It is based on the play Equus by Peter Shaffer .
action
The psychiatrist Martin Dysart is assigned to the case of the 17-year-old introverted stable boy Alan Strang, who has stolen the eyesight of six horses with a sickle in his employer's stable. Dysart, himself tired and burned out, can only slowly reach the boy, a product of an unemotional, overly religious family who has entered into an almost mystical relationship with the horses he cares for, a kind of worship of nature. Through hypnosis, among other things, the psychiatrist finds out that Alan turned against the animals after unsuccessful sexual contact with Jill of the same age who had got him the job as a stable boy.
Reviews
The film-dienst spoke of Lumet's film in its contemporary criticism as an “arts and crafts dialogue drama” and criticized the fact that the “stylized psychoanalytic” theatrical presentation was unnecessarily prepared for the cinema with “naturalistic shock effects” .
In its film review in 1977, the New York Times particularly praised the clever staging ( “intelligent decisions” ) and the acting performances of Peter Firth and Richard Burton, which were never thoughtless or thoughtless ( “It's beautifully, sometimes almost grandly acted [. ..]. There's not a thoughtless or uninteresting performance in the film. " ). In the embodiment of the figure of Dr. Dysart, who dominates the film, shows Richard Burton his best performance since the filming of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ( "This is the best Burton performance since" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "" ).
Awards
In 1978 the film received the following nominations and awards:
- Oscar nominations for Best Actor (Richard Burton), Best Supporting Actor (Peter Firth), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Peter Shaffer).
- BAFTA Awards for Jenny Agutter ( Best Supporting Actress ) and Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for Richard Rodney Bennett; BAFTA nominations for Peter Shaffer ( Best Adapted Screenplay ), Colin Blakely ( Best Supporting Actor ) and Joan Plowright ( Best Supporting Actress ).
- Golden Globe Awards for Richard Burton ( Best Actor - Drama ) and Peter Firth ( Best Supporting Actor ).
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Award for Peter Firth ( Best Supporting Actor ).
literature
- Peter Shaffer : Equus. One piece . German by Wolfgang Mandt . TSV and Sessler, Vienna and Munich 1974, 202 pp. [Stage manuscript]
Web links
- Equus - blind horse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
- ^ 'Equus': Film of a Different Color . In: The New York Times , October 17, 1977. Retrieved November 27, 2014.