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Miracle of the White StallionsRating:
Release Date: 02 March, 2004 Retail Price: $19.99 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Miracle of the White Stallions Reviews
wonderful story
I first saw this movie at a theater when I was a teenager. Recently I took my nieces to see the descendants of the white stallions live. I tried to rent the movie so they could understand the history of the horses, but I could not find one in my town. I didn't think I could find one, I was very happy to find one on Amazon.com. This is such a wonderful story of how dedicated people can save a piece of history. We should not forget how devastating war can be on the innocent animals and people.
Captures the spirit of this extraordinary event
The Spanish Riding School of Vienna has been around for hundreds of years, but was nearly lost in WW2 when the Lipizzaner breeding herd was separated from the stud farm of Piber and moved into Czechoslovakia, and then faced with possible destruction at the hands of the Russians.
Alois Podhajsky, the Director of the school, made a bold request of the Americans, especially General Patton who himself had ridden in the 1912 Olympics, to save the horses. Patton appreciated the tradition of the Spanish Riding School and was able to effect the rescue of the breeding mares along with allied prisoners of war, effectively saving the Lipizzaners and the tradition of the School.
This Disney movie was made in 1963 and has some of the typical Disney characteristics of the time such as blunting the visual depiction of violence and war, but beyond the technical shortcomings, the movie accurately captures the desperate situation facing those who would save a longstanding tradition bound in living beings -- both the horses and the riders -- and how many individuals through both minor and grand gestures worked toward a common cause and saved an institution.
The movie was filmed largely on location, and to watch it is to see a real piece of living history. I highly recommend it.
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