Film
Escape Route to Marseille
1977 · 3h 30m · Documentary
Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers
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Overview
Documentary that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German refugees through occupied France to Marseilles in 1940. In 1977 Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring embark on a journey through France. They trace the escape route of the German emigration in France 1940/41, documenting the places, talking to witnesses, relating the temporal layers.
Cast
Katharina Thalbach
Rüdiger Vogler
François Mouren-Provensal
Ruth Fabian
Reinhardt Firchow
Narrator
Hildegard Schmahl
Narrator
Peter Gingold
Alfred Kantorowicz
Ida Pozner
Ernst Erich Noth
Crew
- Ingemo EngströmDirector · Writer · Producer
- Gerhard TheuringDirector · Writer · Producer
- Anna SeghersNovel
- Axel BlockDirector of Photography
- Heidi MureroEditor
Details
- Release date
- October 12, 1977
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Runtime
- 3h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
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