The Horsemen (1971 film)

The Horsemen is a 1971 Eastmancolor in a Panavision film starring Omar Sharif, directed by John Frankenheimer screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. Based on a novel by French writer Joseph Kessel, Les Cavaliers The Horsemen shows Afghanistan and its people the way they were before the wars that wracked the country, particularly their love for the sport of buzkashi. The film was filmed in Afghanistan and Spain.

The original novel was published in 1968. It was a best seller in France before being released in the US. Film rights were bought by John Frankenheimer and Edward Lewis who set up the film at Columbia. Dalton Trumbo, who had just written The Fixer for Frankenheimer, was signed to do the sript.The film took two and a half years to make and was shot on location in Afghanistan. According to director John Frankenheimer ........

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