The Horse Sacrifice

Name: The Horse Sacrifice
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1970
Duration: 18 min
Cast: Bjørn Nørgaard, Henning Christiansen, Lene Adler Petersen

1970

18min

Documentary

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Overview

Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifice') was the ostensible ritual slaughtering and dismemberment of a horse in protest of the ongoing war in Vietnam (the horse was actually very old and put down humanely by a vet).