Equus

“I am yours and you are mine.”

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Director

Sidney Lumet

Screenplay

Peter Shaffer

Music

Richard Rodney Bennett

Status

Released

Release date

16/10/1977

Original language

English