Movie Type: Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture
Themes: Unlikely Friendships
Main Cast: Graham Clarke, Dan Robbertse, Chase Moore, Jan Decleir, Maria Geelbooi, Lukas Haas, Arie Verveen
Release Year: 2000
Run Time: 81 minutes
MPAA Rating: G
Plot
Chase Moore and Arie Verveen are the human stars of this period drama about the extraordinary life and times of a horse. In 1914, a German supply ship is en route to Africa with a cargo of work horses when one of the mares gives birth to a foal. The pony is soon separated from his mother when the ship docks in a mining community, and he has a hard time getting along, but an orphaned boy who works at a stable takes a liking to the little horse and looks after him. When war breaks out, the stable is abandoned and the pony escapes into a nearby desert, where an Oryx antelope and a native girl become his companions and teach him how to survive on his own. Running Free was directed by award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov; it was produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, who displayed a flair for unusual stories about animals with The Bear. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Jonathan Hely-Hutchinson - Art Director, Zak Grobler - Art Director, Janet Meintjies - Casting, Tommy Hall - Consultant/advisor, Jo Katsaras-Barklem - Costume Designer, Philip A. Patterson - First Assistant Director, Sergei Bodrov - Director, Ray Lovejoy - Editor, Lloyd Phillips - Executive Producer, Alisa Tager - Executive Producer, Nicola Piovani - Composer (Music Score), Wolf Kroeger - Production Designer, Dan Laustsen - Cinematographer, Jean-Jacques Annaud - Producer, Conrad Kuhne - Sound/Sound Designer, Jean-Jacques Annaud - Screen Story, Jeanne Rosenberg - Screenwriter, Allen Smith - Second Unit Director Of Photography, Roger Vernon - Additional Cinematography, Sled Reynolds - Head Animal Trainer, Rodney Glenn - Supervising Sound Editor, Emilia Roux-Weavind - Set Decorator
