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Au hasard Balthazar = Balthazar /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: HAS010 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 297.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2005]Edition: Widescreen format (1.66:1)Description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

0780030079
9780780030077
0037429207420

Other title:

From English subtitles: Balthazar
Title on container: Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar

Uniform titles:

Pour le plaisir.

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.4372 23

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.F67 H37 2005

Other classification:

AP 51056
IH 22020

Online resources:

Contents:

Special features: Donald Richie on Balthazar [2004 video interview with film scholar Donald Richie; 14 min.] ; "Un metteur en ordre : Robert Bresson" [1966 episode of the French television series Pour le paisir, devoted to the film. Features interview with the director as well comments by directors Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, François Riechenbach and novelist Marguerite Duras; 62 minutes] ; original theatrical trailer ; in-container insert contains program notes, and an essay by Bresson scholar James Quandt.

Production 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.

Awards:

Winner, OCIC Award (Robert Bresson), 1966 Venice Film Festival ; Winner (Tie), Critics Award - Best Film (Robert Bresson), 1967 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.

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.Summary: "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."--Container.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 1602 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050127824

Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital mono ; enhanced for 16:9 televisions ; high-definition digital transfer.

In French, with optional English subtitles.

Winner, OCIC Award (Robert Bresson), 1966 Venice Film Festival ; Winner (Tie), Critics Award - Best Film (Robert Bresson), 1967 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.

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