Au Hasard Balthazar

1h 36m
Drama
7.5

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.

Cast

Anne Wiazemsky
Marie
Walter Green
Jacques
François Lafarge
Gérard
Jean-Claude Guilbert
Arnold
Philippe Asselin
Marie's Father
Pierre Klossowski
Merchant
Nathalie Joyaut
Marie's Mother
Marie-Claire Fremont
Baker's Wife
Jean-Joël Barbier
The Priest

Crew

Robert Bresson
Director, Writer
Raymond Lamy
Editor
Ghislain Cloquet
Director of Photography
Jacques Kébadian
Assistant Director
Claude Miller
Assistant Director
Mag Bodard
Producer
Pierre Charbonnier
Production Design
Emmanuel Machuel
Assistant Camera
Antoine Archimbaud
Sound Engineer
Jacques Carrère
Sound Engineer
Jean Wiener
Original Music Composer

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