Plot Summary

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.

Movie Details

Original Title
Fluchtweg nach Marseille – Exodus & Résistance – Bilder aus einem Arbeitsjournal
Status
released
Original Language
de

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Cast

Katharina Thalbach as

Katharina Thalbach

Rüdiger Vogler as

Rüdiger Vogler

François Mouren-Provensal as

François Mouren-Provensal

Ruth Fabian as

Ruth Fabian

Reinhardt Firchow as Narrator

Reinhardt Firchow

Narrator

Hildegard Schmahl as Narrator

Hildegard Schmahl

Narrator

Peter Gingold as

Peter Gingold

Alfred Kantorowicz as

Alfred Kantorowicz

Ida Pozner as

Ida Pozner

Ernst Erich Noth as

Ernst Erich Noth

Production Companies

WDR logoWDR
IFAG-Filmproduktion
Theuring-Engström-Filmproduktion