CERN CineClub - War Horse

Wednesday 25 Nov 2015, 20:00 → 22:26 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

Directed by Steven Spielberg (USA, 2011) 146 min.

Dartmoor 1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal, but when his teenage son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey, the two become inseparable. When harvest fails, the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where, after a disastrous offensive, he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice before he is found, caught in No Man's Land four years later and freed. He is returned behind British lines where Albert, now a private, has been temporarily blinded by gas, but still recognizes his beloved Joey. However, as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?

Original version English; french subtitles