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A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson's Prize Winning Film
Robert Bresson's Prize Winning Film
Drama, History, Thriller, War - 1956
8.3
100%
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A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Director:
A Man Escaped
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Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
11 Nov 1956
Country:
FR
Languages:
German, French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 3 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Even the title dispenses with unnecessary frills: A man escaped. What more do you need to know?
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
17 Jan 2012
fresh:
The best of all prison-escape movies, it reconstructs the very notion of freedom through offscreen sounds and defines salvation in terms of painstakingly patient and meticulous effort.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
5 Mar 2013
fresh:
The prisoner's lonely ardor is enhanced by Mozart's Mass in C Minor; the ending of the movie, as the music wells up, is pure elation.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
5 Mar 2013
fresh:
A Man Escaped masterfully constructs the spaces -- physical and mental -- inhabited by Lt. Fontaine (played in a low-key register by an untrained actor, Francois Leterrier).
– Doug Cummings,
L.A. Weekly,
5 Mar 2013
fresh:
It is Bresson's unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.
– Lawrence O'Toole,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Mar 2013
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