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The Devil's Pass
The Devil's Pass

THE DEVIL'S PASS

La passe du diable

Directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, Jacques Dupont
France, 1959
Adventure

Synopsis

Afghanistan. A young boy gets anxious to go to an annual competition of horseback riders that requires both equestrian and fighting skills. The riders face off in a closed ring, a kind of sport that would have had its origins centuries earlier in the nomadic peoples of this region and Central Asia.

Synopsis

Afghanistan. A young boy gets anxious to go to an annual competition of horseback riders that requires both equestrian and fighting skills. The riders face off in a closed ring, a kind of sport that would have had its origins centuries earlier in the nomadic peoples of this region and Central Asia.