The Virgin's Bed

The Virgin's Bed

114 mins | Drama, Fantasy | May 14, 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...

The Virgin's Bed

114 mins | Drama, Fantasy | May 14, 1969

The Virgin's Bed
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...
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Zanzibar Productions
Original title Le Lit de la vierge
Directors Philippe Garrel
Writers Philippe Garrel

Cast

Zouzou

as Marie / Marie Magdalène

Pierre Clémenti

as Jesus

Tina Aumont

as Prisoner

Philippe Garrel

as Apostle

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

as Horseman

Jaime Semprun

as Prisoner

Margareth Clémenti

as Tortured woman