{"product_id":"a-man-escaped-1956-robert-bresson-new-yorker-video-dvd","title":"A Man Escaped (1956) — Robert Bresson — New Yorker Video DVD","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA Man Escaped (1956) — New Yorker Video DVD\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Bresson's acclaimed French prison-escape drama\u003c\/strong\u003e, also known by its full title \u003cem\u003eA Man Escaped, or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eUn condamné à mort s'est échappé\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the German occupation of France in World War II, French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine is imprisoned by the Gestapo in Lyon's notorious Montluc Prison and sentenced to death. Refusing to surrender to despair, he begins a painstaking plan to escape using improvised tools, patient observation, and extraordinary discipline. 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