Au hasard Balthazar (DVD) [videorecording] / Argos Films ... [et al.] ; une co-production franco-suédoise ; de Robert Bresson ; producteur délégué, Mag Bodard.
Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Walter Green. Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: New restored high-definition digital transfer; video interview with film scholar Donald Richie; "Un metteur en ordre : Robert Bresson", a 1966 French TV program about the film featuring Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, and members of Au hasard Balthazar's cast and crew; original theatrical trailer; a new essay by Bresson scholar James Quandt.
Summary:
Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate.
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