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The Horsemen (1971)
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...
Updated May 21 2020
Cast
Jack Palance
Tursen
Omar Sharif
Uraz
Saeed Jaffrey
District Chief
Eric Pohlmann
Merchant in Kandahar
Leigh Taylor-Young
Zareh
Peter Jeffrey
Hayatal
George Murcell
Mizrar
Crew
Georges Delerue
Original Music Composer
Harold F. Kress
Editor
Joseph Kessel
Novel
Claude Renoir
Cinematography
Dalton Trumbo
Screenplay
John Frankenheimer
Director
Edward Lewis
Producer
James Wong Howe
Cinematography
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