A Man Escaped / Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956) — Robert Bresson’s spare, process-driven prison film (script by Bresson from André Devigny’s memoir) . In Lyon, 1943, Resistance fighter Lt. Fontaine (François Leterrier) is sentenced to death and held at Montluc . He communicates by taps and windows, receives a safety pin to uncuff himself, and over weeks chisels his cell door with a sharpened spoon, fashions rope from cloth and wire, and builds hooks from his lamp frame . On the eve of escape he’s given a cellmate, teenage deserter François Jost (Charles Le Clainche); unsure whether Jost is an informer, Fontaine decides to trust him—realizing he’d have to kill him otherwise—and they prepare together . They slip out at night, cross the roof using train noise as cover, descend into a courtyard where Fontaine kills a guard, scale the outer wall and disappear into the city .
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