Un condamné à mort s'est échappé, ou, Le vent souffle où il veut
By: Gaumont Distribution présente ; un film de Robert Bresson ; scénario et dialogues de Robert Bresson ; une co-production, Gaumont, Nouvelles Editions de Films ; producteurs délégués, Jean Thuillier et Alain Poiré
Contributors: Leterrier, François, actor; Le Clainche, Charles, actor; Beerblock, Maurice, 1930-1998, actor; Monod, Roland, actor; Ertaud, Jacques, 1924-1995, actor; Delhumeau, Jean Paul, actor; Treherne, Roger, actor; Delamarre, Jean Philippe, actor; Gattegno, César, actor; Oerlemans, Jacques, actor; Grevenhorst, Klaus Detlef, actor; Schmidt, Leonhard, actor; Burel, Léonce-Henri, 1892-1977, director of photography; Charbonnier, Pierre, 1897-1978, production designer; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, composer (expression); Lamy, Raymond, film editor; Pipolo, Tony, essayist; Devigny, André, 1916-1999; Gaumont (Firm); Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Blu-ray special ed.
Series: Criterion collection -- 650; Criterion collection -- 650.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York]
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781604657067
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Drama; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; Escapes; German Prisoners and prisons
Other titles: Vent souffle où il veut; Man escaped, or, The wind blows where it wishes; Wind blows where it wishes; Robert Bresson's A man escaped
Description: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.

Digitally restored.

Based on the narrative by André Devigny.

Special features: trailer; Bresson: without a trace, a 1965 episode of the television program Cineastes de notre temps; The road to Bresson, a 1984 documentary; The essence of forms, a forty-five minute documentary from 2010; Functions of film sound, a new visual essay. Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo.

Director of photography, L.H. Burel ; production designer, Pierre Charbonnier ; music by Mozart ; film editor, Raymond Lamy.

François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Roger Treherne, Jean-Philippe Delamarre, Cesar Gattegno, Jacques Oerlemans, Klaus Detlef Grevenhorst, Leonhard Schmidt.

Rating: Not rated.

Blu-ray Disc; region A; full screen (1:33:1) presentation; mono.; requires Blu-ray player.

In French with optional English subtitles.