DVD
Au hasard Balthazar
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
In French with English subtitles.
Performers
Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, Jean-Claude Guilbert, François Lafarge.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Au hasard Balthazar follows the 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 man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Special features: interview with film scholar Donald Richie ; "Un metteur en ordre : Robert Bresson," a 1966 French television show about the film ; original theatrical trailer.