White Mane (1953)
"Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage" (original title)

A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again? The film is ... See full summary »

Director:

Albert Lamorisse

Writers:

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

Stars:

Alain Emery, Laurent Roche, Clan-Clan

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins.

Cast

Credited 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

Storyline

A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again? The film is set in the gorgeous landscape of the Camargue, a marsh area in the south of France where the river Rhone meets the Mediterranean Sea.

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Plot Keywords:

horse | boy | camargue | wild horse | freedom | 

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Genres:

Drama | Family

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

13 January 1954 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

White Mane

Filming Locations:

Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Films Montsouris

Technical Specs

Runtime:

47 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in The Son of Gascogne (1995)

User Reviews

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.