1969
5.7 (15 votes)
1h 54m
Genres
Drama
Fantasy
Comedy
Production Companies
Zanzibar Productions
The Virgin's Bed (Le Lit de la Vierge)
Overview
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...
Key Crew
Director: Philippe Garrel
Writer: Philippe Garrel
Producer: Sylvina Boissonnas, Philippe Garrel
Director of Photography: Michel Fournier
Top Cast
Zouzou
Marie / Marie Magdalène
Pierre Clémenti
Jesus
Tina Aumont
Prisoner
Philippe Garrel
Apostle
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Horseman
Valérie Lagrange
Pierre-Richard Bré
