| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Directors suite |
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Director's suite |
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Director's suite.
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| Summary |
"Based on the true story of a French activist who escaped his Nazi prison hours before he was due to be executed, Bresson's film centers on Fontaine, who is imprisoned by the Nazis in occupied France. Desperate to escape, Fontaine plans his liberation in painstaking detail: creating ingenious tools from objects in his sparse cell, carefully memorising the habits of prison life, discreetly communicating with his fellow inmates. But Fontaine's measured preparations are jeopardised when he is given a new cellmate, Jost, who is confusingly attired in both German and French military uniforms. Will he entrust his carefully laid plans to this potential stool pigeon, or will he eliminate the possibility of being discovered?"--Publisher's website |
| Notes |
"MMA2898" |
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Includes special features |
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Originally released as "Un condamné à mort s'est ećhappé, ou, Le vent souffle où il veut" in 1956 |
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Based on André Devigny's memoir "A man escaped, or, The wind bloweth where it listeth" |
| Credits |
Written and directed by Robert Bresson |
| Cast |
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock |
| Audience |
Censorship classification: PG |
| Notes |
DVD, region 4, PAL |
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In French with English subtitle |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Feature films -- France.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French -- Drama.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Devigny, André, 1916-1999.
A man escaped, or, The wind bloweth where it listeth
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Bresson, Robert.
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Leterrier, François.
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Le Clainche, Charles.
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Beerblock, Maurice, approximately 1930-1998.
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