scene from "Au Hasard Balthazar" (1966 France) directed by Robert Bresson.

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Short famous scene from Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) directed by Robert Bresson. The title character, Balthazar, is a donkey, cruely treated by almost all humans he comes in contact with. This famous sequence, with no dialog and almost all non-human "actors" occurs midway in the film. During one of the better parts of his life Balthazar is with a Circus. The scene is famous for its powerful simple masterly story telling with images, editing, and sound effects. Bresson uses simply "looks ...