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A Man Escaped: Directed by Robert Bresson. With François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod. A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
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- Drama, Thriller, War
- Robert Bresson
- 1957-08-26
Captured French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine awaits a certain death sentence for espionage in a stark German prison in Lyon, France.
Plot. In Lyon in 1943, Fontaine, a member of the French Resistance, jumps out of the car that is taking him to Montluc prison. He is immediately apprehended, and his German captors handcuff him, beat him, and lock him up. Throughout his time in prison, Fontaine regularly hears gunfire as other inmates are executed.
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Nov 21, 2011 · Here is a movie about a man condemned to death in 1943 in Montluc, a Nazi prison camp in Lyon, inside German-occupied France. In a shot that comes even before the titles, we learn that 7,000 men were killed there during the war.
In A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson wastes no time with backstories, excessive character development, or secondary storylines. Set in 1943 France, a resistance fighter named Fontane (Francois ...
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Based on the account of an imprisoned French Resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine’s single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and execution of his escape with gripping precision.
