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Au hasard Balthazar, also known as Balthazar, is a 1966 French film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Anne Wiazemsky. The film's religious imagery, spiritual allegories and naturalistic, minimalist aesthetic style has been praised by film reviewers.[1] This "brief, elliptical tale about the life and death of a donkey" has "exquisite renderings of pain and abasement" and "compendiums of cruelty" that tell a powerful spiritual message.[2]
The film follows Marie, a farm girl, and her beloved donkey Balthazar. As Marie grows up the pair become separated, but the film traces both their fates as they continue to live a parallel existence, continually taking abuse of all forms from the people they encounter.
- Anne Wiazemsky as Marie
- François Lafarge as Gerard
- Philippe Asselin as Marie's father
- Nathalie Joyaut as Marie's mother
- Walter Green as Jacques
- Jean-Claude Guilbert as Arnold
- Pierre Klossowski as Merchant
- François Sullerot as Baker
- Marie-Claire Fremont as Baker's wife
- Jean Rémignard as Notary
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