Escape Route to Marseille

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

Released
1977
3h 30min
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Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Détails techniques

Titre original

Fluchtweg nach Marseille – Exodus & Résistance – Bilder aus einem Arbeitsjournal

Langue originale

DE

Langues parlées

German

Production

Compagnies de production

WDR

IFAG-Filmproduktion

Theuring-Engström-Filmproduktion

Pays de production

Germany