Equus

Hesther Salomon, a magistrate, asks her platonic friend Martin Dysart to treat a 17-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang after he blinded six horses with a sickle. Martin begins winning the respect and confidence of Alan, who shares his earliest memory of a horse from when he was six and a man approached him on a horse named Trojan. Alan imagined the horse spoke to him, and said his true name was Equus, and this was the name of all horses. Martin envies Alan's passionate paganism, in comparison to his own empty life, where he has ceased intimacies with

Credits

Cast
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright

Copyright

Sources

  1. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — title, year, creator, length, copyright