--- title: 'The Horsemen (1971)' type: 'film' director: 'John Frankenheimer' released: '1971-07-22' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-horsemen-1971' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067216/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Horsemen (1971) 1971 · 110 min · Drama, Action · United States ## Synopsis The Horsemen is a 1971 American adventure film starring Omar Sharif, directed by John Frankenheimer; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. Based on a 1967 novel by French writer Joseph Kessel, Les Cavaliers 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [John Frankenheimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-frankenheimer) - **Screenplay:** [Dalton Trumbo](https://cinepixo.com/people/dalton-trumbo) - **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Delerue](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-delerue) - **Producer:** [Edward Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-lewis) - **Director of Photography:** [Claude Renoir](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-renoir) - **Editor:** [Harold F. Kress](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-f-kress) ## Cast - [Eric Pohlmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-pohlmann) - [Peter Jeffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-jeffrey) - [Vernon Dobtcheff](https://cinepixo.com/people/vernon-dobtcheff) - [Leigh Taylor-Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/leigh-taylor-young) - [Saeed Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/saeed-jaffrey) - [Jack Palance](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-palance) - [Mohammad Shamsi](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohammad-shamsi) - [Despo Diamantidou](https://cinepixo.com/people/despo-diamantidou) - [Tom Tryon](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-tryon) - [Omar Sharif](https://cinepixo.com/people/omar-sharif) - [John Ruddock](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ruddock) - [Mark Colleano](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-colleano) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-horsemen-1971 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7740368); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.