A Man Escaped
(1956)
★ 7.9 IMDb · 633 votes
Year: 1956
Runtime: 99 мин
Country: France
Director: Robert Bresson
Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Roger Treherne, Jean Philippe Delamarre, Jacques Oerlemans, Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst
Plot
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Captured French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine awaits a certain death sentence for espionage in a stark German prison in Lyon, France. Facing malnutrition and paralyzing fear, he must plot an extraordinary escape, complicated by the questions of whom to trust, and what lies beyond the small portion of the prison they are housed in.