White Mane

• Alain Emery: Folco
• Jean -Pierre Grenier: narrator

The white stallion ( Original title: Crin -Blanc ) is a French short film by Albert Lamorisse, which was published in 1952 in French cinemas.

Action

Crin - Blanc is the leading stallion of a herd of wild and free horses that live in the desert region of Camargue. He will one day be captured by a rancher who wants to tame the beast and thus deprive him of the freedom. However, neither the breeder nor his assistants manage to break the will of the proud white stallion. He is released and simultaneously explains outlaws. This brings the fisher boy Folco on the plan. He continues as a goal to win Crin - Blanc confidence and tame him. Actually manages the little boy to make friends with the horse, much to the chagrin of the rancher who attaches his shepherds on the stallion. Then Folco flees with Crin - Blanc. At the end of the movie, the two friends riding towards the horizon, in search of a better world in which there are only children and horses.

Reviews

• " [ ... ] The White Stallion [ ... ] having a raging pace, ferocity and such a strong poetic quality that it hurts [ ... ] There are stunning settings of horses, people and grass. There is the scene of a struggle between two stallions that freezes the blood. And there is the feeling of a boy with freiheitsliebendem spirit that is mixed with the indomitable heart and the strength of a powerful horse, driven to an emotional ecstasy, emanating from a rare movie. "

Awards

The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1953 and was honored in the same year at the Cannes Film Festival with the short film prize. A year later, a nomination for best documentary for the British Film Academy Award, where he, however, George Lowe's Oscar -nominated cross defeated by the Antarctic.