Au Hasard Balthazar
19661h 36mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
Keywords
- rape
- donkey
- suicide
- cruelty
- black and white
- animal cruelty
- gang leader
- pride
- countryside
- transcendence
- abusive boyfriend
- french countryside
- youth gang
- misery
- burden
- beast of burden
- purity
- riding a donkey
- peasants
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 1966
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French, Latin
- Countries
- France, Sweden
- Cast
- Anne Wiazemsky,Walter Green,François Lafarge,Jean-Claude Guilbert,Philippe Asselin,Pierre Klossowski,Nathalie Joyaut,Marie-Claire Fremont,Jean-Joël Barbier,Flávio Bolsonaro
- Director
- Robert Bresson
- Writer
- Robert Bresson
- Producer
- Mag Bodard
- Cinematography
- Ghislain Cloquet
- Music
- Jean Wiener
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $39,388
- IMDb
- tt0060138