A Man Escaped, directed by Robert Bresson, is a minimalist World War II prison escape film based on a true story of a French Resistance fighter held by the Nazis. Through meticulous realism and strict visual restraint, the film follows the slow, methodical preparations for escape under constant threat of execution. It stands as one of the most influential survival and resistance films in cinema history.

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A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.