A Man Escaped

Original title: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut

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8.2/10

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A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

26K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Top rated movie #227

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total

Trivia
Robert Bresson himself had been a prisoner of war during WWII.

Quotes
Le lieutenant Fontaine: I think my courage abandoned me for a moment and I cried.

Alternate versions
After the "Fin" title card, there is a version that plays music to a black screen, while another version displays "Exit Music" in white letters against the black screen.

Connections
Featured in The Road to Bresson (1984)

Soundtracks
Great Mass in C Minor, No.16 (K.427) - Kyrie
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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7/10

Triumph on Minimal Material in Realism

The stoically minimized material, a man's precisely prepared, calculated, and then executed escape from a Nazi-prison, effectively builds up an astonishingly intense tension. (For that matter, only similar film I can recall is Cluzot's Wages of Fear, made a couple of years earlier.) In this very quiet A Man Escaped, only music is sporadically inserted Mozart, but it might have worked better without any music.

Bresson audaciously began realism and stood alone in pre-New-Wave France, but left tremendous influences on generations of filmmakers to come.