Escape Route to Marseille

Name: Escape Route to Marseille
Director: Ingemo Engström
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1977-10-12
Duration: 3 h 30 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Katharina Thalbach, Rüdiger Vogler, François Mouren-Provensal, Ruth Fabian, Reinhardt Firchow

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

1977

3h 30m

Documentary

Director: Ingemo Engström

Writers: Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring

Overview

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.