Release Date
12 Oct, 1977
Runtime
03:30: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers
Documentary in two parts 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. The film Escape Route to Marseilles that was the result of this journey, carries the subtitle “Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers”.
Original Title
Fluchtweg nach Marseille
Photos
Katharina Thalbach
Rüdiger Vogler
Hildegard Schmahl
Ingemo Engström
Anna Seghers