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* CuffsOffRubWrists: Fontaine rubs his wrists once he manages to open them with a pin.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Fontaine is eventually sentenced to execution as he reaches the final stages of calculating his escape. On one fateful day, he either has to escape that night or face a firing squad the next morning.
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* SacrificialLion: Orsini, one of the few prisoners we get to know a bit about, ends up dying halfway through after trying to escape, being caught, and executed. However, Fontaine notes how his attempt failed and realizes he needs to install hooks to avoid losing his rope and getting caught in the same way. He and the priest even state out loud that Orsini failed his escape so that Fontaine could succeed his.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A dramatic exmaple. Orsini was betrayed to the Gestapos by his own wife and strangled her near to death over it. The other inmates thought he would go mad, but after enough time he became just as detached and disillusioned as the rest of them. He later admits to Fontaine that although he still has the memories of what happened, to them they're "of another man".
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A dramatic exmaple. Orsini was betrayed to the Gestapos by his own wife and strangled her near to death over it. The other inmates thought he would go mad, but after enough time he became just as detached and disillusioned as the rest of them. He later admits to Fontaine that although he still has the memories of what happened, to them him they're "of another man".
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A dramatic exmaple. Orsini was betrayed to the Gestapos by his own wife and strangled her near to death over it. The other inmates thought he would go mad, but after enough time he became just as detached and disillusioned as the rest of them. He later admits to Fontaine that although he still has the memories of what happened, to them they're "of another man".
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* UncertainDoom: Terry, the inmate who told Fontaine the news and helped him send and receive things, comes up to tell Fontaine goodbye because he's being taken away somethere and they "won't tell me where". He never appears again, or is even confirmed to have been executed (which if so, isn't done publicly).
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* TheLoad: Subverted. Fontaine is worried that Jost is going to be this, because his entire plan is based on the idea that he will escape alone, and now he has a cellmate. He reluctantly decides to trust Jost, and it turns out that they reach a point in the escape which Fontaine couldn't have carried out without someone else to help him. They make it out together.
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* MyopicArchitecture: While the door to Fontaine's cell is made of strong oak, the panels are joined together with significantly softer wood.
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* PermaShave: Despite the circumstances, Fontaine is cleanly shaving in every scene.
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* PermaShave: Despite the circumstances, Fontaine is cleanly shaving clean-shaven in every scene.
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* LimitedWardrobe: Justified. Fontaine spends all of the film in a [[WhiteShirtOfDeath white shirt]] that was bloodied during his impulsive first escape attempt and the aftermath.
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* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Fontaine spends most of the film in a white shirt that was bloodied during his impulsive first escape attempt and the aftermarth.
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* BedsheetLadder: Fontaine fashions a couple, one of which he uses to shimmy down a wall. The second one he flings all the way across the gap between the inner and outer walls, and when the hook catches succesfully, he and Jost clamber across the gap and thence out of the prison.
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* BedsheetLadder: Fontaine fashions a couple, one of which he uses to shimmy down a wall. The second one he flings all the way across the gap between the inner and outer walls, and when the hook catches succesfully, successfully, he and Jost clamber across the gap and thence out of the prison.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Fontaine rubs his wrists once he manages to open them with a pin.
* EnemyChatter: The guard on his bicycle ponders about his girlfriend. It's [[BilingualBonus not translated]] though.
* HairpinLockpick: Fontaine learns how to pick his handcuffs with a pin.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We are [[UnrevealAngle not shown]] how Fontaine offs the guard in the yard.
* PermaShave: Despite the circumstances, Fontaine is cleanly shaving in every scene.
* PovertyFood: All we ever see the prisoners eat is soup.
* PrayerIsALastResort: When the bible-abiding fellow inmate asks Fontaine if he ever prayed, the latter responds that he did when things got bad which the former thinks is just too easy.
* SpitefulSpit: The hero is spat on by a German soldier on arrival at the prison.
* PermaShave: Despite the circumstances, Fontaine is cleanly shaving in every scene.
* PovertyFood: All we ever see the prisoners eat is soup.
* PrayerIsALastResort: When the bible-abiding fellow inmate asks Fontaine if he ever prayed, the latter responds that he did when things got bad which the former thinks is just too easy.
* SpitefulSpit: The hero is spat on by a German soldier on arrival at the prison.
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* EitherOrTitle: ''Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut'', which translates out to "A Man Ccondemned To Death Escaped, or, The Wind Blows Where It Wishes". The second part of that title is a quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of John]] and is commonly rendered in English in archaic King James Bible English as "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth".
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* EitherOrTitle: ''Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut'', which translates out to "A Man Ccondemned Condemned To Death Escaped, or, The Wind Blows Where It Wishes". The second part of that title is a quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of John]] and is commonly rendered in English in archaic King James Bible English as "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth".
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* EitherOrTitle: ''Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut'', which translates out to "Death Penalty Escaped, or, The Wind Blows Where It Wishes". The second part of that title is a quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of John]] and is commonly rendered in English in archaic King James Bible English as "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth".
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* EitherOrTitle: ''Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut'', which translates out to "Death Penalty "A Man Ccondemned To Death Escaped, or, The Wind Blows Where It Wishes". The second part of that title is a quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of John]] and is commonly rendered in English in archaic King James Bible English as "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth".
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* TitleDrop: The alternate title, anyway. Another prisoner copies out Jesus's words to Nicodemus, John 3:3-8, about being born again and how "the wind blows where it wishes."
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* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Fontaine spends most of the film in a white shirt that was bloodied during his impulsive first escape attempt.
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* CutleryEscapeAid: Fontaine uses an iron spoon he steals from his lunch pail to saw through the soft wood joints holding the wooden panels of his cell walls together.
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* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: How Fontaine passes the time in his cell while he waits for either execution or his chance at escape.
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* BedsheetLadder: Fontaine fashions a couple, one of which he uses to shimmy down a wall. The second one he flings all the way across the gap between the inner and outer walls, and when the hook catches succesfully, he and Jost clamber across the gap and thence out of the prison.
* ChromosomeCasting: It is a movie set in prison, after all.
* ChromosomeCasting: It is a movie set in prison, after all.
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* GreatEscape: How did you guess? Concludes with the tense action sequence in which Fontaine and Jost escape. Fontaine has to kill a guard in the courtyard at one point.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Fontaine and Jost walking rapidly away through the fog-bound streets of Lyon. The real Andre Devigny lived until 1999.
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The film is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the German occupation of France. A man named Fontaine (François Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is clapped into Montluc prison in Lyon, and after being beaten by the Gestapo, is left to ponder his fate. One day he notices that while his cell door is made out of stout oak wood, the panels of oak are joined together with lesser quality, softer wood. When he gets an iron spoon with his lunch pail, he pockets it, and discovers that he can saw through the joints. He then begins to plot his escape.
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The film is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the German occupation of France. A man named Fontaine (François Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is clapped into Montluc prison in Lyon, and after being beaten by the Gestapo, is left to ponder his fate. One day he notices that while his cell door is made out of stout oak wood, the panels of oak are joined together with lesser quality, softer wood. When he gets an iron spoon with his lunch pail, he pockets it, and discovers that he can saw through the joints. Eventually he's able to remove the wood panels. He then begins to plot his escape.
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* InMediasRes: The story starts with Fontaine on his way to jail. We never find out how he came to this, or what he did for the resistance. We don't find out much of anything about him in fact, except that he's got a mother alive somewhere (he smuggles out a letter).
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* InMediasRes: The story starts with Fontaine on his way to jail. We never find out how he came to this, or what he did for the resistance. We don't find out very much of anything about him in fact, him, except that he's got a mother alive somewhere (he smuggles out a letter).letter). The whole story is solely concerned with his escape.
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* LaResistance: Why Fontaine is in jail, although we don't find out just what he did for the Resistance.
* LesCollaborateurs: A Frenchman in the prison office calls Fontaine in and demands to know if he's accepted his defeat.
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* {{Narrator}}: Fontaine's voiceover is preesent throughout, narrating his story in first-person.
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** A Frenchman in the prison office calls Fontaine in and demands to know if he's accepted his defeat.
** Late in the film, Fontaine has to share his cell with Jost, a 16-year-old boy who joined the German army before getting in trouble and chucked into prison. Fontaine wonders if he's a spy.
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** A Frenchman in the prison office calls Fontaine in and demands to know if he's accepted his defeat.
** Late in the film, Fontaine has to share his cell with Jost, a 16-year-old boy who joined the German army before getting in trouble and chucked into prison. Fontaine wonders if he's a spy.
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* InvisiblePresident: When Fontaine is taken to Hotel Terminus to see the infamous war criminal [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie Klaus Barbie]], Barbie is only seen from behind.
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''A Man Escaped'' (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut) is a 1956 film from France directed by Creator/RobertBresson.
The film is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the German occupation of France. A man named Fontaine (François Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is clapped into Montluc prison in Lyon, and after being beaten by the Gestapo, is left to ponder his fate. One day he notices that while his cell door is made out of stout oak wood, the panels of oak are joined together with lesser quality, softer wood. When he gets an iron spoon with his lunch pail, he pockets it, and discovers that he can saw through the joints. He then begins to plot his escape.
Based on the RealLife memoir of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Devigny Andre Devigny]], who really did escape from Montluc prison in August 1943.
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* TheAlcatraz: The forbidding Montluc prison, which Fontaine is determined to escape.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Starts with a hand-written note from Bresson stating "The following is a true story. I present it as it happened, without adornment."
* EitherOrTitle: ''Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut'', which translates out to "Death Penalty Escaped, or, The Wind Blows Where It Wishes". The second part of that title is a quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of John]] and is commonly rendered in English in archaic King James Bible English as "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene, Fontaine tries to jump out of the cop car and escape to freedom. He's chased down by a Gestapo man who jumps out of the car ahead of him.
* InMediasRes: The story starts with Fontaine on his way to jail. We never find out how he came to this, or what he did for the resistance. We don't find out much of anything about him in fact, except that he's got a mother alive somewhere (he smuggles out a letter).
* LaResistance: Why Fontaine is in jail, although we don't find out just what he did for the Resistance.
* LesCollaborateurs: A Frenchman in the prison office calls Fontaine in and demands to know if he's accepted his defeat.
* {{Narrator}}: Fontaine's voiceover is preesent throughout, narrating his story in first-person.
The film is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the German occupation of France. A man named Fontaine (François Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is clapped into Montluc prison in Lyon, and after being beaten by the Gestapo, is left to ponder his fate. One day he notices that while his cell door is made out of stout oak wood, the panels of oak are joined together with lesser quality, softer wood. When he gets an iron spoon with his lunch pail, he pockets it, and discovers that he can saw through the joints. He then begins to plot his escape.
Based on the RealLife memoir of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Devigny Andre Devigny]], who really did escape from Montluc prison in August 1943.
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!!Tropes:
* TheAlcatraz: The forbidding Montluc prison, which Fontaine is determined to escape.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Starts with a hand-written note from Bresson stating "The following is a true story. I present it as it happened, without adornment."
* EitherOrTitle: ''Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut'', which translates out to "Death Penalty Escaped, or, The Wind Blows Where It Wishes". The second part of that title is a quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of John]] and is commonly rendered in English in archaic King James Bible English as "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene, Fontaine tries to jump out of the cop car and escape to freedom. He's chased down by a Gestapo man who jumps out of the car ahead of him.
* InMediasRes: The story starts with Fontaine on his way to jail. We never find out how he came to this, or what he did for the resistance. We don't find out much of anything about him in fact, except that he's got a mother alive somewhere (he smuggles out a letter).
* LaResistance: Why Fontaine is in jail, although we don't find out just what he did for the Resistance.
* LesCollaborateurs: A Frenchman in the prison office calls Fontaine in and demands to know if he's accepted his defeat.
* {{Narrator}}: Fontaine's voiceover is preesent throughout, narrating his story in first-person.
