Advent calendar – After the jumping legend Halla and the dressage star Totilas, there is a real movie star hidden behind the third door of our advent calendar: Black Beauty. Every horse-loving child knows the terribly beautiful story of the black horse.
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The story of Black Beauty was penned by the British author Anna Sewell, who wanted to draw attention to the difficult conditions of the working horses of the time with her novel “Black Beauty: The Life Story of a Horse”, published in 1877. The Brit herself would hardly have believed that her story would later become so well known.
Plot
The black stallion Black Beauty tells the events of his first 15 years of life from his point of view. As a foal, he was allowed to grow up in a sheltered manner, was then trained to ride and be a carriage horse, until the black horse ended up with ignorant owners. Lots of things went seriously wrong: Black Beauty and his stallmate Ginger were tortured, fed and held incorrectly, and chased across rocky roads at high speed with a loose horseshoe. Being stabled in a very dark stable almost blinded the stallion during his time as a cab horse in London. Black Beauty loses more and more his will to live and has little hope for a good life. But there should be a happy ending: when the black horse should change hands again, a little boy takes an interest in him and is able to persuade his grandfather to buy the horse. Black Beauty’s path crosses with that of his former stable boy and is allowed to spend the rest of his life with him.
adaptations
The story of the black stallion has been filmed several times: the first two film adaptations are silent films from 1921. The first adaptation with soundtracks, directed by Phil Rosen, followed in 1933 and in 1946 the black stallion had its first major appearance the cinema screen.
There was another movie for the black stallion in 1971. James Hill directed the film, and the well-known German actress Uschi Glas and Walter Slezak were also present.
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1972 to 1974 Black Beauty was dedicated to a television series for the first time, which received a sequel in 1990 under the name “New Adventures for Black Beauty”. In between, in 1978, an American television five-part series, which closely follows the original novel, was released. Probably the best-known film adaptation of the story of the rapping comes from Caroline Thompson and was released in 1994.
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A Disney+ adaptation followed in 2020, telling a modern version of Black Beauty’s story. Instead of a stallion, this time Black Beauty is a mare, voiced by Kate Winslet in the film.
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