Kincsem the movie

Hungarian director Gabor Herendi’s homegrown blockbuster is a lavish period melodrama based on the true story of a legendary race horse.
A record-breaking film about a record-breaking horse, Kincsem is Hungary’s most expensive domestic production to date, and the biggest homegrown box office hit of the last 10 years, eclipsing admission figures for recent Hollywood imports like Fifty Shades Darker and Logan. Full of torrid passions, blazing saddles and thundering hooves, Gabor Herendi’s $10 million historical pageant was screened for market buyers in Cannes as a kind of spicy side dish to Hungary’s strong showing in the official festival program.

Herendi uses a true story of sporting glory as the backdrop to a fictionalized romantic romp set at the peak of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A household name in Hungary, Kincsem was the most successful thoroughbred racehorse in history. Sired by a stallion owned by Queen Victoria, she became a sensation across Europe and a personal favorite of the Austrian emperor Franz Josef, winning all 54 of her races before retiring in 1879. Budapest’s main horse racing track now bears her name.

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