Escape Route to Marseille
1977, German. Directed by Ingemo Engström & Gerhard Theuring.
Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers
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.
- Runtime
- 3h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 12 October 1977
- Original title
- Fluchtweg nach Marseille
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring
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Who directed Escape Route to Marseille?
Escape Route to Marseille (1977) was directed by Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring and stars Katharina Thalbach, Rüdiger Vogler, François Mouren-Provensal.