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A Man Escaped (Criterion Collection) - Region 1 DVD

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Description: W W 0 0 "This story is true," reads the opening statement of A Man Escaped. "I give it as it is, without embellishment." Based on the memoir by Andre Devigny, a member of the French Resistance imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Gestapo during the German occupation, Bresson (himself at one time a German POW) transforms Devigny's daring escape into an ascetic film of documentary detail. Kept in a tiny stone cell with a high window and a thick wooden door, the prisoner (renamed Fontaine in the film) makes himself intimate with his world--every surface of his room, every sound reverberating through the ... (more)
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Release date: 26 March 2013
EAN: 0715515104111 UPC: 715515104111
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