Director: Robert Bresson
Year: 1956
Country: France
Language: French | German
Subtitles: English
Length: 98 mins
Format: PAL
Colour: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37: 1
Alternate Title: Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut

Synopsis

Robert Bresson's 1956 masterpiece, A Man Escaped, is based on a book by Andre Devigny, a Catholic French Resistance fighter in WWII. The book recounts Devigny's true-life laborious escape attempt from the Gestapo's Fort Montluc prison in occupied Lyon in 1943. A Man Escaped was the filmmaker's first film with an entirely non-professional cast and it crystallized his mature aesthetic: automatic and barely-emotive performances, a heavy dependence on sound effects, isolated instances of music, brief dialogue, and elliptical editing that omits narrative detail in order to provoke mystery or avoid sensationalism.