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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 in two parts 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. The film Escape Route to Marseilles that was the result of this journey, carries the subtitle “Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers”.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ruth Fabian
  • Reinhardt Firchow
  • Peter Gingold
  • Katharina Thalbach
  • Rüdiger Vogler

    Directors

  • Ingemo Engström
  • Gerhard Theuring

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • WDR

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Ruth Fabian

Reinhardt Firchow

Narrator

Peter Gingold

Katharina Thalbach

Rüdiger Vogler

Alfred Kantorowicz

François Mouren-Provensal

Ida Pozner

Ernst Erich Noth

Hildegard Schmahl

Narrator