As soon as Hitler came to power, thousands of Germans fleeing arrest
and the concentration camps arrived in France in the 1930s. There
were about 53 thousand of them, 37 thousand being Jews. Some of
them were just passing through, on their way to other countries such as
Britain and the United States, but the majority remained. They
were not well-received...
Script: René Allio, Jean Jourdheuil, Anna Seghers (novel)
Cinematographer: Richard Copans
Music: Georges Boeuf
Cast: Sebastian Koch (Gerhardt),
Claudia Messner (Marie),
Rüdiger Vogler (The Doctor),
Magali Leiris (Nadine),
Judith Henry (Yvonne),
Paul Allio (Georges Binnet),
Nicole Dogue (Claudine),
Ludwig Boettger (Strobel),
Hans Diehl (Heinz),
Facundo Bo (Mexican consul),
William Doherty (US consul),
Wilfred Benaïche (L'homme bien mis),
Gilda Albertoni,
Philippe Ambrosini,
Elisabeth Commelin,
Pierre Forget,
Bernard Freyd,
Ronald Guttman,
Dominique Horwitz,
Günter Lampe
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 125 min
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