War horse [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment present an Amblin Entertainment/Kennedy/Marshall Company production, a Steven Spielberg film ; produced by Steven Spielberg ; screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis ; directed by Steven Spielberg.
Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo. Originally released as a motion picture in 2011. Special features: War Horse : the journey home; An extra's point of view; A filmmaker's journey; Editing & scoring; The sounds of War Horse; Through the producer's lens. Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan.
Summary:
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter.
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