Escape Route to Marseille
7.8
“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.
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16 people
Katharina Thalbach
Known for
The Signal
The Tin Drum
Rüdiger Vogler
Known for
Alice in the Cities
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Anna Seghers
Christhart Burgmann
Ingemo Engström
François Mouren-Provensal
Also in
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Gerhard Theuring
Ruth Fabian
Annelen Kranefuss
Reinhardt Firchow
Narrator
Also in
Farmers, Politics and Bombs
D-I-M, Deus in Machina
Hildegard Schmahl
Narrator
Known for
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
Nowhere in Africa
Peter Gingold
Ingemo Engström Director · Gerhard Theuring Director Anna Seghers Author
First release October 12, 1977 · Produced in Germany · Production IFAG-Filmproduktion, Theuring-Engström-Filmproduktion
Production
WDR
Production
IFAG-Filmproduktion
Production
Theuring-Engström-Filmproduktion
Production
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Production
Germany
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Languages
Original title
Fluchtweg nach Marseille
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · October 12, 1977
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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