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A Man Escaped
A Man Escaped, also known as A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (French: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le Vent souffle où il veut), is a 1956 French prison film directed by Robert Bresson. The film is loosely based on the memoir of André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance who was imprisoned by the occupying German forces at Montluc prison during World War II. Although the protagonist's name is altered in the film, it is inspired by Devigny's real-life escape.
A Man Escaped was screened in competition at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and remains one of Bresson's most acclaimed and influential works.
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.
At first, Fontaine is placed in a cell on the ground floor of Montluc. He communicates with his neighbor by tapping on the wall and is regularly able to talk through his window to Terry, a member of a small group allowed to exercise unsupervised in a courtyard. Terry takes Fontaine's letters to his family and superiors in the Resistance and gets him a safety pin so he can remove his handcuffs.
After fifteen days, Fontaine is moved to a cell on the top floor of Montluc, and he is no longer required to wear handcuffs. His new neighbor, Blanchet, is an elderly man who refuses to respond to his taps on the wall. Fontaine gets to know several other inmates on his daily trips to empty his slop bucket and wash his face, even though the guards regularly admonish them for talking. After Blanchet faints while emptying his slop bucket, he and Fontaine begin to talk to each other at their windows.
Fontaine notices that the wooden door of his cell is made up of thick boards joined together by a softer wood. He sharpens the end of a spoon and begins chiseling away at the joints. After weeks of slow, silent, and meticulous work—which involves keeping track of and disposing of every wood shaving, as well as camouflaging the damage he is doing to the door—he is able to get out of his cell into the hallway at will. He makes some rope using most of his linens and the wire from his bed frame.
Some of Fontaine's fellow inmates begin to believe he may have found a way to escape from Montluc. Orsini, who helped alert Fontaine to approaching guards while he was chiseling at his door, asks to join the escape. Fontaine shares his plan with Orsini, but Orsini thinks it is too complicated. Instead, he tries to make a run for it one day as the inmates walk outside to empty their slop buckets. He is caught and returned to his cell to await execution. He tells Fontaine to fashion hooks to scale the prison walls from the frame of the lighting fixture in his cell.
Fontaine makes more rope out of some cloth items he receives in a package, and Blanchet donates a blanket to his escape effort. However, as time goes on, the other inmates begin to doubt that Fontaine will ever really try to escape. One prisoner refuses to join his plan, calling it unrealistic.
A Man Escaped
A Man Escaped, also known as A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (French: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le Vent souffle où il veut), is a 1956 French prison film directed by Robert Bresson. The film is loosely based on the memoir of André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance who was imprisoned by the occupying German forces at Montluc prison during World War II. Although the protagonist's name is altered in the film, it is inspired by Devigny's real-life escape.
A Man Escaped was screened in competition at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and remains one of Bresson's most acclaimed and influential works.
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.
At first, Fontaine is placed in a cell on the ground floor of Montluc. He communicates with his neighbor by tapping on the wall and is regularly able to talk through his window to Terry, a member of a small group allowed to exercise unsupervised in a courtyard. Terry takes Fontaine's letters to his family and superiors in the Resistance and gets him a safety pin so he can remove his handcuffs.
After fifteen days, Fontaine is moved to a cell on the top floor of Montluc, and he is no longer required to wear handcuffs. His new neighbor, Blanchet, is an elderly man who refuses to respond to his taps on the wall. Fontaine gets to know several other inmates on his daily trips to empty his slop bucket and wash his face, even though the guards regularly admonish them for talking. After Blanchet faints while emptying his slop bucket, he and Fontaine begin to talk to each other at their windows.
Fontaine notices that the wooden door of his cell is made up of thick boards joined together by a softer wood. He sharpens the end of a spoon and begins chiseling away at the joints. After weeks of slow, silent, and meticulous work—which involves keeping track of and disposing of every wood shaving, as well as camouflaging the damage he is doing to the door—he is able to get out of his cell into the hallway at will. He makes some rope using most of his linens and the wire from his bed frame.
Some of Fontaine's fellow inmates begin to believe he may have found a way to escape from Montluc. Orsini, who helped alert Fontaine to approaching guards while he was chiseling at his door, asks to join the escape. Fontaine shares his plan with Orsini, but Orsini thinks it is too complicated. Instead, he tries to make a run for it one day as the inmates walk outside to empty their slop buckets. He is caught and returned to his cell to await execution. He tells Fontaine to fashion hooks to scale the prison walls from the frame of the lighting fixture in his cell.
Fontaine makes more rope out of some cloth items he receives in a package, and Blanchet donates a blanket to his escape effort. However, as time goes on, the other inmates begin to doubt that Fontaine will ever really try to escape. One prisoner refuses to join his plan, calling it unrealistic.