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Status
Released
Release
2013
Runtime
2h 10m
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A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
47 Cast Members
Guillaume Canet
Pierre Durand
Marina Hands
Nadia Durand, wife of Pierre
Daniel Auteuil
Serge Durand, father of Pierre
Lou de Laâge
Raphaëlle Dalio, Jappeloup's groom
Tchéky Karyo
Marcel Rozier, French team coach
Jacques Higelin
Henry Dalio, first owner of Jappeloup
Marie Bunel
Arlette Durand, mother of Pierre
Joël Dupuch
Francis Lebail
Fred Epaud
Patrick Caron
Arnaud Henriet
Frédéric Cottier
Donald Sutherland
John Lester
Antoine Cholet
Hubert Bourdy
Edmond Jonquères d'Oriola
Philippe Rozier
Benoît Petitjean
Éric Navet
Sébastien Cazorla
Michel Robert
Noah Huntley
Joe Fargis
James Flynn
John Lester's son
Marco Luraschi
Pierre Durand as a child
Sonia Ammar
Raphaëlle as a child
Jeffrey Noel
Gilles, groom
