A Man Escaped
“Robert Bresson's Prize Winning Film”
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
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Cast
12 people
François Leterrier
Fontaine
Also in
Stavisky...
Charles Le Clainche
Jost
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Maurice Beerblock
Blanchet
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Roland Monod
Priest of Leiris
Known for
The War Is Over
Jacques Ertaud
Orsini
Jean Paul Delhumeau
Hebrard
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Roger Treherne
Terry
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Jean Philippe Delamarre
Le Prisonnier 110
Also in
Clockwork Bananas
The Escapees
Jacques Oerlemans
Chief Warden
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Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst
L'Officier de L'Abwehr
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Leonhard Schmidt
Escort Guard
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Roger Planchon
Guard on a Bike
Known for
I... for Icarus
Dossier 51
Robert Bresson Director · André Devigny Author Léonce-Henri Burel Cinematographer
United States release August 26, 1957 · Produced in France · Languages French, German
Production
Gaumont
Production · Studio
Nouvelles Éditions de Films
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · German
Release dates
France · November 11, 1956
Theatrical
United States · August 26, 1957
Theatrical
Denmark
November 7, 1960 · Theatrical
France
May 14, 1957 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
Netherlands
April 28, 2008 · Physical · DVD
Russia
February 25, 1963 · Theatrical
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