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Escape Route to Marseille

10/12/1977

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3hrs 30min

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Documentary

Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Katharina Thalbach
  • Rüdiger Vogler
  • François Mouren-Provensal
  • Ruth Fabian
  • Reinhardt Firchow

    Directors

  • Ingemo Engström
  • Gerhard Theuring

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • WDR
  • IFAG-Filmproduktion
  • Theuring-Engström-Filmproduktion

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

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