Man Escaped, A

About the movie

It is 1943 in Lyon, France. Resistance fighter Fontaine is captured by the Nazis and brought to a prison full of other spies and Nazi-opponents. It is cold, Fontaine is malnourished and the sounds of executions of captives cut like knives through the prison walls. Fontaine’s only alternative to death is to plot for the most extraordinary escape in film history.
Bresson’s magnum opus A Man Escaped earned the director his first Best Director-award at the Cannes Film Festival, and is considered the original prison break-feature – its impact is enormous and undeniable.

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