Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (1953)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Albert Lamorisse

Writers:

Albert Lamorisse (original scenario)
Denys Colomb Daunant (adaptation)

Release Date:

13 January 1954 (Denmark)

Genre:

Short | Drama | Family

Plot:

A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes...

Plot Keywords:

Horse | Camargue | Freedom | Wild Horse | France

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins

Cast

Alain Emery	...	Folco, the boy
Laurent Roche
Clan-Clan
Pascal Lamorisse
Francois Perie
Charles Guillaume
Alain Colomb Daunant
Denys Colomb Daunant		(as Denys Colomb de Daunant)
Charles Fouhetty
Pierre Bestieux
Pierre Moureaux-Nery
Jean-Pierre Grenier	...	Narrator (original version) (as J. P. Grenier)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Frank Silvera	...	Narrator- English

Also Known As:

Crin blanc (France) (short title)
White Mane (USA)
White Mane: The Wild Horse (International: English title)
Wild Stallion

Runtime:

47 min | USA:40 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) | USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Australia:G | Finland:S

Filming Locations:

Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Company:

Films Montsouris

Movie Connections:

Featured in Le fils de Gascogne (1995)

A childhood classic

Every French pupil of the sixties or even the seventies knows "Crin-Blanc",one of the major works of Albert Lamorisse who used to make films aimed at the children's market: "Bim Le Petit Ane" "Le Voyage en Ballon" and "le Ballon Rouge" are of the same kind.The French critic remains tepid as far as they are concerned,but abroad all are praised as masterpieces of moving poetry.

Let's take the golden middle:masterpieces,there are certainly not,but representative of an era ,the era of Doisneau's photographs and pupils in grey overall,they certainly are.

Whereas "le Ballon Rouge " depicted a graying urban landscape,"Crin-Blanc" takes place in Camargue with its wild horses ,including ,the wildest of them all,"Crin-Blanc ".But the two movies have the same conclusion: both Folco and Pascal cannot live in the men's world and both escape from their world,one flew over Paris with his magic balloon and the other returned to the (new christening?) waters of the river with his mythical horse.