The Virgin's Bed 1969

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Drama Fantasy Comedy

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...

Release Date 1969-05-14
Runtime 1h 54m
Directors Philippe Garrel, Michel Fournier
Producers Philippe Garrel, Sylvina Boissonnas
Writer Philippe Garrel