The Wind Horse
Synopsis
“The Wind Horse” is a story about the friendship that develops between a man in his sixties and a man in his thirties. It’s a road movie – seen from a sidecar – in which poetry and fantasy spring from a background of dull, everyday routine.
Tahar, once a blacksmith, leaves his son’s house in the little town of Salé, where he feels he has outlived his usefulness and become nothing but a burden and a nuisance. He wants to pay one last visit to the tomb of the woman he truly loved. She’s buried in Azemmour, where Tahar lived a full and active life before his retirement. In his mind, the journey is like a pilgrimage into his own past.
Driss, the younger man, leaves hospital without knowing whether he is cured or has little time left to live. He concentrates all his energy on a strange letter he has recently received, informing him that his mother wishes to see her children one last time. But Driss grew up with an older brother, convinced that his mother had died when he was barely three years old.
What brings Tahar and Driss together is the nature of their common quest: each has set his sights on a fantasy horizon, and prefers to keep yearning for it than actually facing up to reality.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : POM Films
- Foreign production company : Les Films du Sud
- French distribution : POM Films
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producers : Gaël Teicher, Freddy Denaës
- Screenwriter : Ahmed Bouanani
- Director of Photography : Thierry Le Bigre
- Music Composer : Youness El Meghri
- Editor : Andrée Davanture
- Sound Recordist : Jérôme Ayasse
- Press Attaché (film) : Jean-Bernard Emery
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : France, Morocco
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 50% French (France, Morocco)
- Production year : 2001
- French release : 03/04/2002
- Runtime : 1 h 28 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 104.981
- Visa issue date : 01/07/2002
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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News & awards
Selections (2)
San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF)
Spain, 2003
Amongst Friends and Neighbours - North African Open House
