A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped

  • Director: Robert Bresson
  • Writer: André Devigny,Robert Bresson
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French, German
  • Release date: August 26, 1957
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth
  • "Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut" is a feature film directed by Robert Bresson, starring François Lettrell and Charles Le Clainche.
    The film tells the story of how a French lieutenant successfully escaped from a Nazi prison during the Nazi occupation.

    Details

    • Release date August 26, 1957
    • Filming locations Studios de Saint-Maurice, Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France
    • Production companies Gaumont, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Randy 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      streamline

      "The Thief" was the first film I watched Bresson, and I didn't quite understand it after watching it, so I watched the second "Death Row", which is the film I want to briefly talk about today. The storyline of "Death Row" is very clear. A French lieutenant who was imprisoned by the Germans during World War II wanted to escape from prison and regain his freedom. He showed extraordinary courage and determined character on the road to escape. The film unfolds in a chronological order and is...

    • By Oliver 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      brevity

      Quite concise. Around François Leterrier's constant efforts to live, from imprisonment to freedom.

      One by one, the old inmates went less, and there were more and more new inmates. The single cell was gradually turned into a double cell, and the situation was very grim. Such is the brutal prison environment.

      As a viewer, I have always been worried about failure, so afraid of being found out. Apart from the slightly worrying pencil check this time, there is almost nothing...

    • By Norwood 2022-03-25 09:01:15

      Not only the desire for freedom, but also the responsibility for the country and the unyielding soul

      Although the film is full of cramped space and repeated scenes, it tells a thrilling experience of escape from prison. Compared with The Shawshank Redemption, this film pays more attention to the psychological state and delicate changes of the escapees themselves through the narration of the protagonist. In addition to the motif of the pursuit of freedom, it also adds to the question of whether personal survival and religion can be affected by the turmoil of the country and the country. The...

    • By Jarret 2022-03-23 09:02:48

      Prison break movie must see!

      Everyone like it. This film is compared with "The Hole" and "Shawshank"... I personally think that "The Hole" mainly expresses the people who escaped from the prison, and expresses the human nature by expressing the reactions of the people who escaped from the prison. "Shawshank" focuses on the relationship between prisoners and prisons to reflect social issues. This film is very different from the first two, he is a death row! ! Not liberty and imprisonment but life and death! This film sees...

    • By Roel 2022-03-23 09:02:48

      We are a combination of contradictions

      In this great minimalist film, Robert Bresson wants to discuss with us the different reactions and attitudes that human beings take when faced with extreme dilemmas such as life and death. Some people put their spirit on religion, and some people decide to endure silently and wait for the arrival of light. Some people put their love on the book, some people choose to run away, but they don't trust his fellow victims, (in the end he failed).
        Our hero Fontaine also chose to escape, but he...

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    • By Evelyn 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      The escape section is very good, and the silence becomes more and more suffocating. The foreshadowing part is plain, maybe this is the style of the master cloth, I will watch a few more in the...

    • By Emma 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      [Return of Shanghai Film Festival] Robert Bresson's masterpiece, the originator of prison break films. 1. The narrative is minimal, but the details of the escape preparation are extremely detailed; 2. The audience’s perspective is limited: a lot of tools and close-ups of the prisoners’ faces, but there are no prison guards, officers’ faces and the prison panorama, creating an unknown and tense atmosphere; 3. Voice Drawing relay, the emphasis on off-screen sound: footsteps, locking doors,...

    • By Meredith 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      333 The title is a spoiler, simplifying the complex, and at the same time, it also explains every detail of the preparation for jailbreak. There is almost no soundtrack, but the atmosphere is extraordinarily tense, and I dare not miss a frame, a great, perfect film.

    • By Jaylon 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      This set is also one of my favorite...

    • By Kyra 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      #Shanghai Film Festival# The 23rd, the penultimate one. Last marked 2013.11.08. Concise and powerful, hold your breath...

    Movie plot

    Von Daener was a French lieutenant, a "prisoner" detained by the Nazis in a prison. He tried to escape by jumping into a car on his way to the prison, but was caught back and was humiliated and tortured, and he did not get any food for several days. The strong, he got comfort from the knocking next door and some help from an old man in the yard.
    The "prisoners" detained here line up early in the morning to pour the toilet downstairs,...
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    Background creation

    Both the film and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" are based on prison escape, but the difference is that the ruthless Bresson planned such a never-say-failure escape hero as early as the 1950s. This is Bresson’s impressive masterpiece at the beginning of his creative career, and since then established his basic style-the combination of structuralism and minimalist realism. The basic structure of the movie is very concise, and...
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    Evaluation action

    The shots in "Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut" are almost frozen. Most of them are a superposition of medium shots and close-ups. Director Bresson does not like to use distant shots, so I can’t speculate on the actual structure of this prison. And the area—so it creates a lingering sense of tension. With a little attention, the Nazi secret police and guards have no facial features, which also poses a...
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    Movie quotes

    • Le lieutenant Fontaine: Do you believe in luck?

      François Jost: I used to. It didn't work out.

      Le lieutenant Fontaine: Maybe you're the one who blew it.

    • Le lieutenant Fontaine: [Narrating, after giving his word to the prison warden that he would not try to escape again] Who were we kidding? He certainly did not believe me. As for myself, I was determined to escape at the first opportunity.

    • Le lieutenant Fontaine: [Narrating, as he and other prisoners go back to their cells after a short break outside] Time to empty our slop pails and run a little water over our faces, then back to our cells for the entire day. With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away...