A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut) (1956)
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11 years, 2 months ago at Nov 29 11:27
A Man Escaped succeeds simply as the most tingly, tension-filled prison escape caper you'll ever see, but given that the prison in question is Nazi sadist Klaus Barbie's holding pen for condemned French resistance fighters, the story, which is based on true events, becomes a good vs. evil parable for the ages.Lieutenant Fontaine (François Leterrier) is no coward. As the story begi... read more
French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Release date: 26 August 1957
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"12.2. 2020 Robert Bresson's masterpiece is a completely honest, truthful, and incredibly accurate film about a member of the French Resistance and his escape from a Nazi prison. It's especially impressive how Bresson uses sound to create unique atmosphere. The main character has been sentenced to death and he knows that he is going to get killed any time possible if he doesn't manage to escape. The film presents an interesting and depressing moral dilemma: Helping other prisoners to escape may "
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