In a french short feature film without any dialogue a man was hanged from atop a bridge over a stream and the story is about his momentary imagination of miraculous survival before his death?
The French film is La Riviere du Hibou (1962). It is an
adaptation of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story by
the 19th-century American author Ambrose Bierce. At least three
other film versions have been made (see link below).