| La Bandera | |
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| Directed by | Julien Duvivier |
| Written by | Pierre Dumarchais (novel) Charles Spaak Julien Duvivier |
| Produced by | André Gargour |
| Starring | Annabella Jean Gabin Robert Le Vigan Raymond Aimos Pierre Renoir |
| Cinematography | Jules Kruger |
| Edited by | Marthe Poncin |
| Music by | Roland Manuel Jean Wiener |
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| Distributed by | SNC |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
La Bandera (released in the United States as Escape from Yesterday) is a 1935 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Annabella, Jean Gabin and Robert Le Vigan. It was based on the 1931 novel La Bandera by Pierre Mac Orlan. After committing a brutal murder in Paris, a Frenchman flees to Barcelona where he enlists in the Spanish Foreign Legion. He is sent to fight in Morocco where he unexpectedly bonds with his comrades and marries a local woman before his past begins to catch up with him. Like Duvivier's other works of the period, the film is infused with poetic realism.
The film was made at the Joinville Studios in Paris with sets designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. Location shooting took place in Barcelona and at barracks in Tetuán in Spanish Morocco.