Escape Route to Marseille
Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers
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October 12, 1977
3h 30m
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.
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In United States
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