| Copertina |
Attore |
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| Sean Bean |
Farmer Grey
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| David Thewlis |
Jerry Barker
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| Jim Carter |
John Manly
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| Peter Davison |
Squire Gordon
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| Alun Armstrong |
Reuben Smith
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| John McEnery |
Mr. York
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| Eleanor Bron |
Lady Wexmire
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| Peter Cook |
Lord Wexmire
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| Adrian Ross Magenty |
Lord George
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| Alan Cumming |
Black Beauty
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| Dettagli del film |
| Genere |
Avventura ; Drammatico; Ragazzi |
| Regista |
Caroline Thompson |
| Produttore |
Peter Macgregor-Scott; Robert Shapiro |
| Autore |
Anna Sewell; Caroline Thompson |
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| Lingua |
Italiano |
| Censura |
G |
| Durata |
88 min. |
| Nazione |
USA |
| Colori |
Colore |
| Valutazione IMDB |
6.4 |
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| Trama |
Black Beauty, tratto dal romanzo di Anna Sewell, dalla sua pubblicazione nel 1877 rappresenta una delle storie d’animali più amate in tutto il mondo. La vicenda viene narrata dall’eroe protagonista, uno straordinario cavallo nero con una stella bianca sulla fronte, le cui vicende gioiose e drammatiche lo conducono dalla vita idilliaca di campagna alle strade lastricate di Londra. Questa è la versione più fedele al racconto tra le numerose finora realizzate. Impossibile non farsi conquistare da Ginger, la puledra ribelle, Merrylegs il pony birichino e il coraggioso Black Beauty, il cui destino s’intreccia con quello degli uomini che incontra, buoni e cattivi; da Farmer Grey e il giovane stalliere Joe Green al cocchiere Jerry Barker.
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Black Beauty (in full: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, first published November 24, 1877) is Anna Sewell's only novel, composed in the last years of her life between 1871 and 1877 while confined to her house as an invalid.[1]
The story is told in the first person (or "first horse") as an autobiographical memoir told by a horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.[1]
The book became an immediate best-seller, with Anna living just long enough (five months) to see her first and only novel become a success. Anna said of her purpose in writing "its special aim being to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"[1]—an influence she attributed to an essay on animals she read earlier by Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) entitled "Essay on Animals".[2] Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare and is said to have been instrumental in abolishing the cruel practice of using the checkrein (or "bearing rein", a strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horses' neck).[3] Black Beauty also contains two pages about the use of blinders (calling them blinkers) on horses, concluding that this use is likely to cause accidents at night due to interference with "the full use of" a horse's ability to "see much better in the dark than men can."
Crippled and unable to walk since a young child, Anna Sewell began learning about horses early in life, spending many hours driving her father to and from the station from which he commuted to work. Sewell's introduction to writing began in her youth when she helped edit the works of her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1797-1884), a deeply religious, popular author of juvenile best-sellers. By telling the story of a horse's life in the form of an autobiography and describing the world through the eyes of the horse, Anna Sewell broke new literary ground.[3]
Black Beauty was not originally intended as a children's novel, but for people who work with horses. It soon, however, became a children's classic, a novel of education for generations of schoolchildren to the present day. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect.
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham."
—Black Beauty, Chapter 13, last paragraph.
Later student editions included further study questions, highlighting the moral theme of each chapter.[4] Margaret Blount in her book Animal Land says Black Beauty is “the first real animal novel,” “the most famous and best-loved animal book of all time,” and “perhaps the last of the moral tales” (249-50). Susan Chitty calls it “probably the most successful animal story ever written” with more than 30 million sold.[3] |
| Dettagli personali |
| Visto |
No |
| Indice |
1729 |
| Stato della collezione |
In collezione |
| Posizione |
T3-Ragazzi |
| Collegamenti |
IMDB
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| Qualità |
99 |
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| Dettagli del prodotto |
| Formato |
DVD |
| Regione |
Region 1 |
| Nr di dischi/nastri |
1 |
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