- BFI identifier26579
- Date1956 (Release)
- Production countryFrance
- Production company
- SynopsisTrue story of the hazardous and daring wartime escape of a French officer from the condemned cell of a Nazi prison, with action set to Mozart's Great C-Minor Mass. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Robert Bresson
[Based on the true story of]: André Devigny
Production Company: Société Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont
view all - CastFrançois Leterrier (Lieutenant Fontaine)
Charles Le Clainche (Jost)
Maurice Beerblock (Blanchet)
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Title
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (Original)
A Man Escaped (Alternative)
Le Vent souffle où il veut (Alternative)
Gestapo... Lyon, 1943 (Alternative)
Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé (Alternative)
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