A Man Escaped
About A Man Escaped
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
A Man Escaped (1956) is a thriller film directed by Robert Bresson. Released in November 1956, it runs 101 minutes.
The film is filed under train, prison escape, prison break, and escaped convict.
François Leterrier stars as Fontaine, Charles Le Clainche as Jost, Maurice Beerblock as Blanchet, and Roland Monod as Priest of Leiris. The screenplay is by Robert Bresson. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.
Schindler's List, The Great Escape, and Von Ryan's Express make useful companions to A Man Escaped, all filed under black and white, nazi, and period drama. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 644 votes and it carries a NR rating.