- Set in 1917 Palestine, the film's Muslims are the Turkish soldiers defending Beersheba - an enemy line for Australian cavalry to charge and overrun, though one Turkish officer is granted a moment of tactical shrewdness - while Palestinian Arabs themselves are all but invisible in their own land.
The Lighthorsemen (1988)
film · 1987 film by Simon Wincer
- Director
- Simon Wincer
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English
- Distributor
- Hoyts
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- action film, drama film, war film, historical film
- Cast
- Peter Phelps, Sigrid Thornton, Tony Bonner, Gary Sweet