Balthazar (Au hasard Balthazar)

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7.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Robert Bresson

Starring

Anne Wiazemsky
Marie

Jean-Claude Guilbert
Arnold

Written by

Robert Bresson

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Film follows the life of the donkey Balthazar as he passes from owner to owner, many of them treating him cruelly, all of them are beyond his pure and simple comprehension. His sad predicament as a beast of burden parallels the life of his first human owner, Marie, who, like Balthazar suffers the sins of man. Balthazar is a noble creature, however, and he accepts his fate with grace. The film is a parable of virtue & purity. It is a narrative of transcendence in a life of burden.

Release date: 25 May 1966
UPC: 037429207420

Tags: 1960s (8), Drama (7), France (6), 1966 (5), Innocence (4), Sheep (4), Donkey (4), Chicken (4), Animal Cruelty (4), French (3), Praying (3), 60s (2), Love (2), Religion (2), Foreign Language (2), Nurse (2), Sweden (2), Christianity (2), Farm (2), Farmer (2)

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