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4x259 MAN ESCAPED linen French 1p '56 Robert Bresson, WWII Resistance prison escape, best Colin art!

Date Sold 9/15/2011
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45" x 63") (Learn More)

Un Condamne a Mort s'est Echappe ou Le Vent Souffle ou il Veut (released in the U.S. in 1957 as "A Man Escaped"), the classic 1956 Robert Bresson French Nazi French Resistance World War II (WWII) prison escape melodrama ("Bresson's prize winning film"; based on the memoir by Andre Devigny; about a man in the French Resistance who is captured by the Nazis, and he plans to escape from prison, but on the day of his planned escape, he is both sentenced to death and given a cellmate who may or may not be a Nazi informer) starring Francois Leterrier, Charles LeClainche, Jean Paul Delhumeau, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, and Jacques Ertaud
Artist: Paul Colin
Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this French movie! Also note that this poster is not marked, but it is NOT the style B poster, and since we know that there IS a style B poster on this title, we assume that this poster is the style A, so we are referring to it in that fashion.

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at many crossfolds and some creases, tears, and small paper loss on parts of many foldlines. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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