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A Man Escaped, the Glossary

A Man Escaped or The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le Vent souffle où il veut, which literally translates as: "A man condemned to death has escaped or The wind blows where it wants"; the subtitle is a quote from) is a 1956 French prison film directed by Robert Bresson.^[1]

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Films directed by Robert Bresson
Films set in Lyon
French docudrama films
French prison films

Abwehr

The Abwehr (German for resistance or defence, though the word usually means counterintelligence in a military context) was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.

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Alain Poiré

Alain Poiré (13 February 1917 – 14 January 2000) was a French film producer and screenwriter.

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André Devigny

André Devigny (25 May 1916 – 12 February 1999) was a French soldier and member of the Résistance.

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (p 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin.

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An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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Benny Safdie

Benjamin Safdie (born February 24, 1986) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and film editor best known for working with his older brother Josh as a filmmaker.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Bruno Dumont

Bruno Dumont (born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director

The Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène) is an award presented annually at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946.

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Christopher Nolan

Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker.

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Curzon Film

Curzon Film, formerly known as Artificial Eye or Curzon Artificial Eye, is a British film distributor, specialising in independent, foreign-language and art house films for cinema and home entertainment.

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David Bordwell

David Jay Bordwell (July 23, 1947 – February 29, 2024) was an American film theorist and film historian.

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Diary of a Country Priest

Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a 1951 French drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu in his debut film performance. A Man Escaped and Diary of a Country Priest are 1950s French films, 1950s French-language films, Existentialist films and films directed by Robert Bresson.

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Dunkirk (2017 film)

Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air. A Man Escaped and Dunkirk (2017 film) are French war drama films and world War II films based on actual events.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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François Leterrier

François Leterrier (26 May 1929 – 4 December 2020) was a French film director and actor.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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Gaumont Film Company

The Gaumont Film Company, often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).

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German military administration in occupied France during World War II

The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Administration militaire en France) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.

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Great Mass in C minor, K. 427

Great Mass in C minor (Große Messe in c-Moll), K. 427/417a, is the common name of the musical setting of the mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which is considered one of his greatest works.

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Jacques Ertaud

Jacques Ertaud (18 November 1924 – 18 November 1995) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Jean Thuillier

Jean Thuillier (12 October 1921 – 22 August 2017) was a French novelist and medical doctor.

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Kristin Thompson

Kristin Thompson (born 1950) is an American film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films, the history of film styles, and "quality television," a genre akin to art film.

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Krzysztof Kieślowski

Krzysztof Kieślowski (27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter.

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Kyrie

, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the.

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Léonce-Henri Burel

Léonce-Henri Burel (23 November 1892 – 21 March 1977) was a French cinematographer whose career extended from the silent era until the early 1970s.

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Louis Malle

Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Madman Entertainment

Madman Entertainment Pty.

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Memoir

A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.

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Montluc prison

Montluc prison is a former prison located on rue Jeanne Hachette in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is a non-profit organization of New York City area film enthusiasts.

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New Yorker Films

New Yorker Films was an independent film distribution company founded by Daniel Talbot in 1965.

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Out of print

An out-of-print (OOP) or out-of-commerce item or work is something that is no longer being published.

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Paul Schrader

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic.

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Pickpocket (film)

Pickpocket is a 1959 French film written and directed by Robert Bresson. A Man Escaped and Pickpocket (film) are 1950s French films, 1950s French-language films, Existentialist films and films directed by Robert Bresson.

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Prison film

A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Raymond Lamy

Raymond Lamy (1903–1982) was a French film editor active from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson (25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Safdie brothers

Joshua Safdie (born April 3, 1984) and Benjamin Safdie (born February 24, 1986) are independent American filmmakers and actors based in New York City, who frequently collaborate on their films.

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Scott Walker (singer)

Noel Scott Engel (January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019), better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was an American-British singer-songwriter and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive voice and his unorthodox stylistic path which took him from being a teen pop icon in the 1960s to an avant-garde musician from the 1980s to his death.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Escaped

Also known as A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth, Un condamné à mort s'est échappé, Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut.

, World War II, 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

A Man Escaped, the Glossary

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See also

Films directed by Robert Bresson

Films set in Lyon

French docudrama films

French prison films

References