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...

Variations énigmatiques autour de la Vierge Marie, de Jésus-Christ et du Monde en devenir après les événements sociaux de 1968…

"Das Bett der Jungfrau" ist eine Abwandlung der Passion Christi, in der der Heiland keine Jünger hat und fast ausschließlich allein unterwegs ist. Nur Maria Magdalena leistet ihm Gesellschaft.

성경의 알레고리를 느슨하게 차용한 작품으로, 당대를 대표하던 패션모델이자 아티스트, 뮤지션인 주주가 막달레나 마리아로 분하며, 피에르 클레멘티가 예수 역을 맡았다. 감독 자신은 직접 엇나가는 제자로 출연한다. 필립 가렐은 당대의 68운동을 상징하는 인물로서 예수를 ‘궁극의 히피’로 내세운다.

La Virgen María da a luz a un Jesús ya adulto que desde el primer momento se encuentra a disgusto en la Tierra y clama al cielo tratando de que su Padre atienda sus quejas. A lomos de un burro, Jesús emprende sin ninguna convicción su camino para, con la ayuda de un megáfono, tratar de difundir su mensaje en un mundo permanentemente hostil que no quiere escucharle.

Efsanevi model, sanatçı, müzisyen Zouzou’nun Mary Magdalene’yi, Fransız oyuncu Pierre Clémenti’nin İsa’yı oynadığı, yönetmenin kendisinin de yanlış yola sapmış bir havari olarak yer aldığı İncil’le ilgili serbest bir alegori.