RUNNING FREE aka HOOFBEATS

Year: 1999
USA: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Chase Moore, Jan Decleir, Arie Verveen, Maria Geelboi, Lukas Haas
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Country: USA
Language: English / Russian
USA: 82 mins
USA Rated: G
USA Release Date: 2 June 2000 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

RUNNING FREE follows the adventures of Lucky, a foal born aboard a German supply steamer transporting workhorses to Africa in 1914. Left to fend for himself after his arrival in a mining town on the inhospitable Skeleton coast of Namibia he is adopted by an orphaned stable boy, Richard (Chase Moore).

War approaches and he is once again abandoned until a young Bushman girl takes him into the desert and teaches him how to survive. Lucky's journey eventually leads him back to the destroyed mining town where he is reunited with a young mare, Beauty, whom he first fell in love with as a foal, and undertakes an heroic mission to defeat the domineering stallion Caesar to become the leader of the herd.