AFTRS Library Presents... A Man Escaped (1956)

This year’s AFTRS Library Presents... film program screens in conversation with the library’s show-stopping Curated Collections. A drawcard of the library, the Curated Collection is a display that’s designed and developed around a theme, film genre, filmmaker, or in tribute to a specific film. Spectacularly crafted by our movie-mad Librarians, each Curated Collection shines a light on overlooked and underappreciated gems in the library’s collection of physical media, celebrating our knowledge of, and devotion to cinema.

To coincide with our upcoming Prison themed Curated Collection we are very to excited to be screening:

A Man Escaped (dir: Robert Bresson, 1956)

When: Tuesday, 28 July, 2026

Time: Doors open: 6:00pm / Film starts: 6:30pm.

Where: AFTRS Main Theatre

Screenings are free but bookings are essential as seating is limited.

Seating is NOT allocated.

Screening courtsey of Gaumont.

A MAN ESCAPED

Loosely based on the memoir of Andre Devigny, an imprisoned member of the French Resistance during World War II, A Man Escaped is an all-time classic of determination and redemption. Bresson's elegant, transcendental style is in full effect here – imbuing this tense story with a unique beauty. Ranked at number 41 in the 2022 Sight & Sound Director's Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, A Man Escaped has been a major inspiration to many filmmakers, including Krzysztof Kieślowski, Benny Safdie and Christopher Nolan. Rarely screened in Sydney, don't miss your chance to see this masterpiece on the big screen!

Summary: A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

Director: Robert Bresson

Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock.

Run time: 1 hour and 41 minutes.

Rating: PG (Mild violence)