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A Man Escaped

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé

1956

Director:
Robert Bresson
Studio:
Gaumont
Starring:
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod

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In 1943, French Resistance fighter Fontaine is imprisoned by the Germans in Lyon and sentenced to death. Using a spoon to slowly loosen the boards of his cell door, he plans his escape in painstaking detail, until a teenage boy is put in his cell and he has to decide whether to trust him.