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7.5An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Released: 1940-11-0198 minDir: Mervyn LeRoyDrama, Thriller
Cast
- Norma Shearer as Countess Ruby von Treck
- Robert Taylor as Mark Preysing
- Conrad Veidt as General Kurt von Kolb
- Alla Nazimova as Emmy Ritter
- Felix Bressart as Fritz Keller
- Albert Bassermann as Dr. Arthur Henning
Themes
- nazi
- escape
- germany
- world war ii
- concentration camp prisoner
- nazi officer
- countess
- dying mother
- expatriate
- rescue operation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Nazi Germany
- Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Screenwriter
- Arch Oboler
- Cast member
- Alla Nazimova
- Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Producer
- Lawrence Weingarten
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cinematographer
- Robert H. Planck
- Narrative location
- Germany
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 457987
- Image
- Poster - Escape (1940) 01.jpg
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- publication date
- 1940-01-01
- title
- Escape
- color
- black-and-white
- costume designer
- Adrian
- production designer
- Cedric Gibbons
- distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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