Whitestar

Oct 9, 2019

1h 22m

★ 5.2

Overview

Megan has a special relationship with discarded jumping horse Whitestar. When it turns out that Whitestar still has special talents, the owner takes him away from Megan for competitions, but has no success. Only when Megan and Whitestar are together again does Whitestar turn out to be a real winner because they bring out the best in each other.

Genres

Drama

Family

Production Companies

2CFilm

Whitestar Trailers

Cast

Dierenarts

Victoria Koblenko

Eddy (jong)

Valentijn Avé

Julia (jong)

Sterre van Woudenberg

Handelaar

Loek Peters

Vader Angela

Daniël Boissevain

Alex

Kees Boot

Megan (jong)

Richelle Plantinga

Marianne

Tina de Bruin

Megan

Britt Dekker

Lennard

Pim Wessels

Gerrit

Bart Klever

Linda Rozenboom

Peggy Vrijens

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