Escape Route to Marseille

3h 30m
Documentary
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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.

Cast

Katharina Thalbach
Unknown
Rüdiger Vogler
Unknown
François Mouren-Provensal
Unknown
Ruth Fabian
Unknown
Reinhardt Firchow
Narrator
Hildegard Schmahl
Narrator
Peter Gingold
Unknown
Alfred Kantorowicz
Unknown
Ida Pozner
Unknown
Ernst Erich Noth
Unknown

Crew

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

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