Ein zum Tode Verurteilter ist entflohen (1956)
48KEin zum Tode Verurteilter ist entflohen: Directed by Robert Bresson. With François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod. A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.
“Bressonu0026#39;s command of the cinematic language…and more importantly, his restraint… make this a very powerful story of one manu0026#39;s determination to find meaning in his actions, focused goal, and adherence to his beliefs.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePresumably tipping off the viewer with the title (A Man Escaped) we already suspect how it will end, and therefore the tension isnu0026#39;t in the final twists of the story, but rather, his journey to that place.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNarrative stripped down of all melodramatic trappings, the film manages to reveal a larger truth about manu0026#39;s struggle against unknowable odds, his struggle with himself, and his resolve to move forward. A couple of the side-characters are from the church, or pastors, which give the ongoing conversations in the common areas an added resonance to u0026quot;graceu0026quot; and a possibility of transcendental deliverance. Even though the lead character doesnu0026#39;t seem to truck much with religious faith. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHe has his own – in his resolve to escape.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s appropriate that we barely know why the lead character is in prison, only that he is already on the way there when the film starts. (And even then, tries a failed attempt to run from the car that is transporting him. So much for back-story. The character is revealed through his subsequent actions.)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA simple beautiful film focused on humanity at its most desperate, spare, and focused.”
