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The Virgin's Bed

5.8(17)19691h 54m1

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...

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Released
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Language
French
  • mercenary
  • avant-garde

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremierePacific Film Archive26 Feb 1971
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereQuinzaine des réalisateurs, Cannes Film Festival14 May 1969
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival13 Feb 2007
    • Digital / OTT1 Sept 2019

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The Virgin's Bed was released on 14 May 1969.

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