Desc: Die Flucht: Directed by Kai Wessel. With Maria Furtwängler, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Tonio Arango, Gabriela Maria Schmeide. In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.