ARABIC BLOOD
A documentary by Wolfgang Bergmann
German equestrian sport and horse breeding have become a dominant power in the last three centuries. Horses of German breeding and training are „export hits“, and they win the most of the prizes in dressage and horse-jumping contests worldwide.
Yet German virtues are not hereditary, also not for horses. The secret of the success of German horse riding and showmanship is, and what I would like to depict impressively in this film, that on the one hand horse riding is based on a well structured training and on the other hand by refining the heavy warm-blooded horses through the Arabian, and indirectly with the Anglo-Arabian thoroughbreds.
The film will follow the career of outstanding horses who revolutionized the German breeding and the passionate individuals behind them. The film traces the bloodline from the Arabian Bedouins to Hungary and Poland to Germany. Traveling trough the Arabic world, the United Kingdom, Hungary and Poland, the film will always return to Germany in order to unveil the mystery of the enduring success of the German equestrians.
Format: 60/90 min, period of producing 2008/2009