The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg
1967, French. Directed by Roland Lethem.
A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries. 2.) Etoile-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a starfish and then giving birth to a smaller starfish. A statement of inadequacy. To give birth involves an emasculation and a loss of vitality. 3.) Corps-two images of a man on a couch groping for each other, watched by a mysterious peeping Tom. As the two superimposed images come together, the heavy breathing subsides…the statement that the birth of desire is a self – realisation. 4.) Hymen – The decaying body of a girl is shot through green filters, and the final image reveals her vagina crawling with maggots and overlain with a crucifix. A representation of Catholicism preventing the free expression of desire.
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- 0h 19m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- French
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- Released
- 27 December 1967
- Original title
- Les souffrances d'un oeuf meurtri
- Country
- Belgium
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The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 27 December 1967. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg?
The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg (1967) was directed by Roland Lethem and stars Andrée McLey, Roland Lespineux, Jio Berk.