After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port. –National Center for Jewish Film
Axel Corti (7 May 1933, Paris — 29 December 1993, Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria (buried at Friedhof Arnsdorf, Lamprechtshausen)) was an Austrian writer and director.
He was born in Paris. Father was Austrian and Italian descent, and mother was from Berlin.
Axel Corti worked at the Austrian Television from 1953 onwards. Beginning with the works on “Schalldämpfer”, he made Austrian radio history. Later he became a professor at Austrian academy of film (in 1972).
Axel Corti was the father of three sons, one of them is Sebastian Corti. —Wikipedia