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Title Au hasard Balthazar / Argos Films, Parc Film, Athos Films ; Institut Suédois du Film ; Svensk Filmindustri présentent ; de Robert Bresson ; producteur délégué, Mag Bodard.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  DVD AU    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD AU HASARD BALTHAZAR    Check Shelf
Edition DVD special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages illustrations ; 19 cm).
Physical Medium stamping rdapm
4 3/4 in. rda
Description Dolby rdaspc
mono rdapc
optical rdarm
digital rdatr
NTSC rdabs
region 1 rdare
DVD video
video file rdaft
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection ; 297
Criterion collection ; 297.
System Details DVD; region 1, NTSC; 16:9 widescreen presentation (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital monaural.
Cast Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Jean-Joël Barbier, Jean Rémingnard, Walter Green, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Pierre Klossowsky, Marie-Claire Frémont, Guy Renault, Guy Brejac.
Credits Directeur de la photographie [= Director of photography], Ghislain Cloquet ; chef monteur [= chief editor], Raymond Lamy ; jazz et chansons de [= jazz and songs by] Jean Wiener.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio).
"Restored in 2014 from the original 35 mm negative by the Éclair Group and L.E. Diapason"--English subtitles for sequence before main title.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Summary "A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema ... 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 humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence."--Container.
Note Special features: New 4K digital restoration; interview from 2004 with film scholar Donald Richie; "Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson", a 1966 French television program about the film, featuring dirctor Robert Bresson, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and members of Auhasard Balthazar's cast and crew; trailer; plus, an essay by film scholar James Quandt [in insert].
Awards Winner, OCIC Award (Robert Bresson), 1966 Venice Film Festival ; Winner (Tie), Critics Award - Best Film (Robert Bresson), 1967 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
Language French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Subject Donkeys -- France -- Drama.
Animal welfare -- France -- Drama.
Domestic ass owners -- France -- Drama.
Abused women -- France -- Drama.
Human-animal relationships -- Drama.
Abused women. (OCoLC)fst00794870
Animal welfare. (OCoLC)fst00809431
Domestic ass owners. (OCoLC)fst00896594
Donkeys. (OCoLC)fst00896848
Human-animal relationships. (OCoLC)fst00963482
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Genre/Form Feature films.
Fiction films.
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Added Author Bresson, Robert, film director.
Bodard, Mag, 1916-2019 film producer.
Wiazemsky, Anne, actor.
Lafarge, François, actor.
Asselin, Philippe, actor.
Wiéner, Jean, composer (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Argos Films, presenter.
Parc Film (Firm), presenter.
Athos Films, presenter.
Svenska filminstitutet, presenter.
Svensk filmindustri, presenter.
Note Title on container: Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar
Also known as: Balthazar
Standard No. 715515215619
ISBN 9781681434490
1681434490
Music No. CC2892D The Criterion Collection
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