--- title: 'Equus (1977)' type: 'film' director: 'Sidney Lumet' released: '1977-10-16' runtime_minutes: 137 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United Kingdom' - 'United States' - 'Canada' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/equus-1977' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075995/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Equus (1977) 1977 · 137 min · Drama · United Kingdom, United States, Canada ## Synopsis Equus is a 1977 psychological drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his 1973 play of the same name. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Kate Reid and Jenny Agutter. The story concerns a psychiatrist treating a teenager who has blinded horses in a stable, attempting to find the root of his horse worship. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Lester Persky](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-persky), [Elliott Kastner](https://cinepixo.com/people/elliott-kastner) - **Director of Photography:** [Oswald Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/oswald-morris) - **Director:** [Sidney Lumet](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-lumet) - **Screenplay:** [Peter Shaffer](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-shaffer) - **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Rodney Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-rodney-bennett) - **Editor:** [John Victor Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-victor-smith) ## Cast - [Peter Firth](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-firth) - [Kate Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/kate-reid) - [Joan Plowright](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-plowright) - [Jenny Agutter](https://cinepixo.com/people/jenny-agutter) - [Eileen Atkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/eileen-atkins) - [John Wyman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wyman) - [Harry Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-andrews) - [Colin Blakely](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-blakely) - [Richard Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-burton) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/equus-1977 Film facts: Wikidata (Q496734); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.