Escape Route to Marseille

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

10/12/19773h 30min9.0/10(1 TMDB votes)

Documentary

Directed by Ingemo Engström

Plot

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.