A Man Escaped (1956) by Robert Bresson
Sunday, March 26, 1989, 8:00 pm
ROBERT BRESSON’S A MAN ESCAPED
1956, 102 minutes
Based on a newspaper account by Resistance leader Andre Devigny of his escape from a Nazi prison just hours before his planned execution, A Man Escaped undertakes to construct a film in which traditional dramatic elements such as heroism and escape are secondary to the emotional and psychological drama of the prisoner’s mind. The terror and solitude of imprisonment are explored in a thoroughly Bresson (director of Pickpocket, Mouchette and others) manner. Also to be shown: Early Edison shorts of the 1890s (18 mins).