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Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
Directed by Abraham Polonsky
“The Excitement and Romance of Old Russia!”
Adventure, Drama · 1h 41m
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things.
Cast
Yul Brynner
Eli Wallach
Jane Birkin
Lainie Kazan
David Opatoshu
Serge Gainsbourg
Henri Serre
Linda Veras
Marilù Tolo
Branko Pleša
Mort Shuman
Crew
- Director
- Abraham Polonsky
- Screenplay
- David Opatoshu
- Novel
- Joseph Opatoshu
- Director of Photography
- Piero Portalupi
- Original Music Composer
- Mort Shuman
- Editor
- Kevin Connor
- Producer
- Gene Gutowski
Details
- Original title
- Le Roman d'un voleur de chevaux
- Release date
- 1971-08-11
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, Italy, Yugoslavia
- Production
- Jadran film, International Film Company, Les Films R.P.