Films

A Man Escaped : Orsini's Failed Escape and His Execution

Orsini (Jacques Ertaud) fails to escape while the inmates empty their slop buckets. He tells Fontaine (François Letterier) that he will need hooks to escape. Then, one day, Fontaine hears Orsini being executed.

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dissolve, dolly shot, eyeline match, fade-out, following shot, framing, long shot, medium close-up, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, narration, narrator, pan, shot/reverse shot, tilt, tracking shot, voiceover narration

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"Orsini's Failed Escape and His Execution" in A Man Escaped. Directed by Robert Bresson, Gaumont, 1956, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=4201

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