Transit

2018
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Title: Transit

Original Title: Transit

Year: 2018

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Release Dates

  • UK: August 16 2019
  • United States: March 01 2019

Plot

The new drama directed by Christian Petzold ('Phoenix', 'Barbara') is located during World War II, in particular, in a France fighting and trying not to fall in Hitler's hands.

In Marseille, refugees from all of Europe embark on their way to America in order to escape the Nazi occupation that is ravaging the European continent. Among them, the young German Georg (Franz Rogowski), who supplants the identity of a dead writer to use his visa, which guarantees a safe refuge in Mexico. The young man will fall in love with María (Paula Beer), a girl he meets in Marseille and desperately looking for the man he loves, without whom he is not willing to leave, curiously the man Georg's impersonating.

Cast

Director:

Christian PetzoldChristian Petzold

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Trivia

Based on real events

Anna Seghers, author of the novel the film is based on, was a woman of Jewish family that had to emigrate to Marselle to hide away in Mexico.

A paradox

Most of the things (cars, military uniforms etc) in this film couldn't physically exist unless the nazis were defeated, making the film paradoxical and therefore a sci-fi.

End of the trilogy

According to Christian Petzold, 'Transit' is the last chapter of his trilogy called "Love in times of oppressive systems". The trilogy also includes 'Barbara' (2012) and 'Phoenix' (2014).

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