Au hasard Balthazar
By: producer, Mag Bodard ; written and directed by Robert Bresson
Contributors: Wiazemsky, Anne, actor; Lafarge, François, actor; Joyaut, Nathalie, actor
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 297; Criterion collection -- 297.
Published: 2018
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Donkeys; Drama; Human-animal relationships; Conduct of life; Animal welfare
Other titles: Balthazar
Description: Follows the lives of donkey Balthazar and his first caretaker Marie, as they each face injustice and abuse at the hands of various people.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.

LPCM mono, wide screen 1.66:1.

Essay by film scholar James Quandt in container.

Features: interview from 2005 with film scholar Donald Richie; French television program "Un metteur en ordre : Robert Bresson" (1966) about the film, featuring Bresson, filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and members of Balthazar's cast and crew; original theatrical trailer.

Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Nathalie Joyaut, Philippe Asselin, Walter Green.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In French with optional English subtitles.