The Virgin's Bed (1969)
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...
Director: Philippe Garrel
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Zouzou as Marie / Marie Magdalène |
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Pierre Clémenti as Jesus |
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Tina Aumont as Prisoner |
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Philippe Garrel as Apostle |
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Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Horseman |
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Valérie Lagrange as |
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Pierre-Richard Bré as |
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Babette Lamy as |
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Didier Léon as |
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Jaime Semprun as Prisoner |
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Margareth Clémenti as Tortured woman |
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Nicole Laguigner as |
| Directing | Philippe Garrel | Director |
| Writing | Philippe Garrel | Writer |
| Production | Sylvina Boissonnas | Producer |
| Production | Philippe Garrel | Producer |
| Editing | Philippe Garrel | Editor |
| Sound | Philippe Garrel | Sound |
| Sound | Claude Jauvert | Sound |
| Camera | Michel Fournier | Director of Photography |