Running Free (2000)

From producer Jean-Jacques Annaud (SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, THE BEAR) and award-winning director Sergei Bodrov comes the captivating, visually stunning dramatic adventures of RUNNING FREE, in which one courageous horse grows from an awkward colt into a magnificient stallion at the edge of the rugged, inhospitable Skeleton Coast of Namibia.
In 1914, Lucky is born aboard a tempest-tossed German supply steamer transporting his mother and other workhorses to Africa, Torn from her side shortly after arrival and left to fend for himself in a strange and unforgiving environment, the vunerable foal is adopted by an orphaned stable boy, Richard (Chase Moore), in a ming town. When the townspeople must flee due to encroaching war, Lucky is abandoned, bereft of his young companion and caretaker, until a young Bushman girl comes into town and escorts Lucky into the desert. There she helps him learn how to survive in the harsh, untamed wilderness.
Lucky's journey eventually leads him back to the destroyed mining town where he reunites with a young mare, Beauty, whom he first fell in love with as a foal, and undertakes a heroic mission to defeat the domineering stallion Ceasar to become the leader of the herd. © 2000 Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co. Medien KG and SPE German Finance Co. Inc. All Rights Reserved.