Robert Bresson MAN ESCAPED UN CONDAMNE MORT S'EST ECHAPPE OU LE VENT #143336

Description

A Man Escaped [Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut] (Original photograph from the set of the 1957 film)
Author:
Robert Bresson (director, screenwriter); Andre Devigny (memoir); Francois Leterrier (starring)
Title:
A Man Escaped [Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut] (Original photograph from the set of the 1957 film)
Publication:
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1956
Description:
Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film, showing director Robert Bresson demonstrating a small action to the film's lead actor Francois Leterrier. With holograph annotations on the verso.
Based on the 1956 memoir "A Man Condemned to Death has Escaped" by Andre Devigny, about a French Resistance member's escape from the Nazi controlled prison of Montluc. Like Devigny, Bresson himself was a French POW during the war. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
6.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with shallow diagonal creasing to the corners.
Criterion Collection 650. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France.
Seller ID:
143336
Subject:
1950s Cinema, Cannes Film Festival, European Cinema, Film Still Photographs, Films with Literary Sources, French Cinema, Photographs, Prison, World War II
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