The two 11-year-old girls Anna and Sharbat meet and become friends after a while. They unite around a big and secret goal: Anna is to ride the black stallion Zafir in a riding school competition, and Sharbat is to help her rein in the temperamental creature.
Practical Effects
Real horse stunts, no CGI—Zafir is genuinely terrifying.
Director
Malene Vilstrup
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Danish family films from this era were notoriously underfunded; Zafir was trained for months because the production couldn't afford a stunt double horse.
This quietly launched a wave of Scandinavian 'tween adventure' films where competent children save incompetent adults from themselves.
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