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“I was able to call on my experience as a prisoner of war. And my impressions, my sensations, how I felt interacting with my German guards and jailers – I tried to put it all in the film.” – Robert Bresson

A Man Escaped is the hypnotically rigorous depiction of a prisoner’s planned escape from Montluc prison. Steeped in shadows and composed with scintillating precision, Bresson finds profound spiritual meaning in the arduous physicality of the preparations. Based on the memoir of French soldier André Devigny and inspired by Bresson’s own time as a prisoner of war, it is one of the director’s finest achievements and a masterpiece of methodical filmmaking.

PG | Mild violence