The Shawshank Redemption
Cinema has always been fond of escape stories. Whether epic or intimate stories, war or prison film, tragedy or comedy, these tales reflect the injustices, violence and conflicts that tear people apart, as well as their propensity for solidarity and compassion. The inventiveness the characters devote to escaping is reminiscent of that of filmmakers who stage their imprisonment in order to better break it down: an always meticulous game, set against a backdrop of spatial constraints and a race against time.
In 1947, Andy Dufresne is a young banker wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He is imprisoned in an excessively harsh prison in Maine, where he meets Red, who has been held there for twenty years. Their enduring friendship gives rise to the hope that one day they might be free again.
Frank Darabont
Ferenc Árpád Darabont, also known as Frank Darabont is a Hungarian-born American film director, screenwriter, producer, composer, musician and actor. He is best known for directing three feature films adapted from the works of Stephen King: The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007). He was also behind the development of the TV series The Walking Dead and Mob City, and regularly works as a script doctor on film scripts.
