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Escape Route to Marseille (1977) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1977 · 210 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring
- Starring
- Rüdiger Vogler, Katharina Thalbach, Hildegard Schmahl, François Mouren-Provensal, Reinhardt Firchow, Ruth Fabian
Using a 1977 working journal on Anna Seghers’s novel *Transit*, the documentary mixes dramatized reconstructions, personal recollections and newsreel footage to recount the 1940 flight of German refugees across occupied France to Marseille. Filmmakers Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring retrace the escape route in 1977, visiting key sites, interviewing witnesses and linking past and present layers of the story.
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