A Man Escaped (1956)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

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

Director: Robert Bresson

Writers: Robert Bresson, André Devigny

Cinematographer: L.H. Burel

Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Roger Treherne

Based on the memoirs of André Devigny, Bresson’s engrossingly understated and largely (but for the odd burst of Mozart) beautifully low-key film follows the escape attempt of an imprisoned terrorist/resistance fighter at Fort Montluc, Lyon, in Nazi-occupied France in 1943, detailing from beginning to end his numerous feats of ingenuity and daring. Iain.Stott