Escape Route to Marseille (1977)
3h 30m
Running Time
October 12, 1977Release Date
Escape Route to Marseille (1977)
3h 30m
Running Time
October 12, 1977Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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”.
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Cast & Crew.

Ruth Fabian

Reinhardt Firchow
Narrator

Peter Gingold

Katharina Thalbach

Rüdiger Vogler

Alfred Kantorowicz

François Mouren-Provensal

Ida Pozner

Ernst Erich Noth

Vladimir Pozner
Self

Hildegard Schmahl
Narrator

Ingemo Engström
Director

Gerhard Theuring
Director

Anna Seghers
Novel

Christhart Burgmann
Producer

Axel Block
Cinematographer

Heidi Murero
Editor
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1977
Original NameFluchtweg nach Marseille
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 30m
Genres
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