Event Dime

THE TURIN HORSE (35mm)

When:

June 20, 2026 · 2:00 PM

Where:

Belcourt Theatre, 2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN

Source:

6AM City Nashville – Events

Part of Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair While travelling in Turin, Italy, in 1889, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a horse being whipped. He tossed his arms around the horse's neck to protect it, and then collapsed. Less than a month later, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a mental illness that left him bedridden and mute for the next eleven years, until his death at age sixty-five. But whatever happened to the horse? After opening with this ingenious set-up, The Turin Horse, the