As a horse master, stuntman, horse trainer, personal trainer for actor-riders andCanal+ second unit director, Mario Luraschi has been working with the greatest directors on more than 500 movies. His ultimate dream? That a scriptwriter imagines something which he hasn’t done yet!
Some of the movies that have highlighted his career:
Shooting for the new season on March
A Martin Koolhoven's movie, with Dakota Fanning and Kit Harington
In Gilles Legrand’s "L’ odeur de la mandarine" (2014): Scenes of driving, high school, complexities between men and horses, mating of horses, … Once more Mario Luraschi’s horses show their talent.
In Christan Duguay’s ‘Jappeloup’ (2013), Mario Luraschi coordinates the stunt scene in which a horse truck is on fire and a horse runs freely on a highway, surrounded by cars at full speed. His horses and riders doubled also the falls, the missed jumps and the dressage of the young horse.
'The Brothers Grimm' by Terry Gilliam (with Matt Damon and Monica Bellucci - 2005): Mario organises strange tricks (a horse swallows a young girl) and impressive stunts as a very dangerous fall of a horse. He even makes his horse fly in the air!
Napoleon (2002), a TV series by Yves Simoneau with Christian Clavier. Mario Luraschi directs every possible stunt and coordinates the explosion of the boat bridge on the Danube river. He shows the high school jumps courbette and cabriole in the Imperal Riding School of Vienna by which he surprised the riding masters of the Spanish Riding School.
Luc Besson’s ‘Joan of Arc’ (1999) with Milla Jovovitch.
A horse jumps a twelve feet long ditch filled with long wooden pikes and Joëlle Baland performs a superb rear-and-backwards-fall.
‘La fille de d’ Artagnan (d’Artagnan’s daughter) by Bertrand Tavernier (1994) with Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret and Claude Rich
The horse named Emilo jumps through a window with only seven feet to stop. A real feat!
In another scene, three riders jump into a boat at the same time.
‘Lucky Luke’, directed and played by Terence Hill in 1991.
Jolly Jumper disappears under the water after a jump into the river and gets reanimated by Terence Hill himself!
A film by Gérard Vergez with Marlène Jobert and Gerard Klein.
Mario Luraschi accomplishes his famous jump into a small and crowded boat:
From the small quay, his horse leaps 3,50 meters into a boat with 15 soldiers aboard.
‘Les fous du labo 4’, a comedy by Jacques Besnard with Jean Lefèvre and Bernard Blier opens the doors to the seventh art.
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