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Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (Original title)A Man Escaped (Alternative title)Le Vent souffle où il veut (Alternative title)Gestapo... Lyon, 1943 (Alternative title)Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé (Alternative title)
Date: 1956 (Release)

Country: France

Director: Robert Bresson

Synopsis: True 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.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Prisoners, Nazi Party, Escapes
Releases
Date: 1956Country: FranceRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Length: 9162 FeetDialogue (dubbed): French
Date: 1993Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Dialogue (original): French / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Artificial Eye Film Company

Credits (28)
[Based on the true story of]: André Devigny, Production Company: Société Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont, Production Company: Nouvelles Éditions de Films, Associate Producer: Jean Thuillier, Associate Producer: Alain Poiré, Production Manager: Robert Sussfeld, [Production Manager] Assisted by: Irénée Leriche, [Production Assistant]: Louis Malle, Assistant Director: Michel Clément, Assistant Director: Jacques Ballanche, Script Supervisor: Annie Dubouillon, Screenplay/Dialogue: Robert Bresson, Based on a story by: André Devigny, Director of Photography: L.H. Burel, Assistant Photographer: Henri Raichi, Assistant Operator (1st): Jean Charvein, Assistant Operator (2nd): Jean Chiabaut, Stills Photography: Jean-Louis Castelli, Editor: Raymond Lamy, Art Director: Pierre Charbonnier, Assistant Art Director: Sydney Bettex, Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Orchestra Conductor: I. Disenhaus, Sound Recordist: Pierre-André Bertrand, Assistant Sound: Joseph Abjean, Guy Rophé, Studio: Studios Saint-Maurice
Cast (12)
François Leterrier (Lieutenant Fontaine), Charles Le Clainche (Jost), Maurice Beerblock (Blanchet), Roland Monod (Curé de Leiris), Jacques Ertaud (Orsini), Jean Paul Delhumeau (Hébrard), Roger Treherne (Terry), Jean-Philippe Delamarre (prisoner 110), César Gattegno (prisoner X), Jacques Oerlemans (chief warder), Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst (German intelligence officer), Leonhard Schmidt (German escort)