Escape Route to Marseille

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Escape Route to Marseille (1977)

Directed by Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring

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

Documentary · 3h 30m

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.

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Cast

Katharina Thalbach Rüdiger Vogler
F
François Mouren-Provensal
R
Ruth Fabian
R
Reinhardt Firchow Narrator Hildegard Schmahl Narrator
P
Peter Gingold
A
Alfred Kantorowicz
I
Ida Pozner
E
Ernst Erich Noth

Crew

Director
Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring
Writer
Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring
Novel
Anna Seghers
Director of Photography
Axel Block
Editor
Heidi Murero
Producer
Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring

Details

Original title
Fluchtweg nach Marseille
Release date
1977-10-12
Runtime
3h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany
Production
WDR, IFAG-Filmproduktion, Theuring-Engström-Filmproduktion