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Transit
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Synopsis
In order to escape fascist encroachment in Europe, Georg (Franz Rogowski) goes on the run to Marseille, France, using the identity papers of a dead writer. Once safely across the border Georg finds a place among other refugees, and falls for the mysterious Marie (Paula Beer), who is searching for her husband. There’s just one problem: the name on Georg’s papers is that of Marie’s husband.
Transit adapts a novel of the same name by Anna Seghers. While the book is explicitly set during World War II, the setting of this film version by Phoenix director Christian Petzold is somewhat less explicit, adding to a sense of uncertainty and displacement that makes this refugee thriller so effective.
Cast
- Franz Rogowski
- Paula Beer
- Godehard Giese
- Lilien Batman
- Maryam Zaree
- Barbara Auer
- Matthias Brandt
- Sebastian Hülk
- Emilie de Preissac
- Antoine Oppenheim
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Metacritic
Aug 17, 2019
While it’s fair to say that Transit isn’t aiming for a torn-from-the-headlines specificity about the issues of today, it could be accused of dodging some racial questions, and some of its Petzoldian gambits – including a love triangle that remixes Casablanca with sepulchral dabs of Vertigo – dampen its dramatic charge.
Tim Robey
The Telegraph
Mar 19, 2019
Transit has a hint of science fiction, and more than a hint of Kafka. And despite the story’s link to World War II, it’s clear that Petzold wants it to resonate with today’s immigration problems.
Walter Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle
Mar 1, 2019
Transit doesn’t just freeze its characters in place. They’re stuck in time, too, on a continuum that connects today’s exiled lost souls to yesterday’s. Because when it comes to people without country fleeing for their lives across the globe, there is no old or new, no then or now, no past or future, just an awful present tense. Transit, meanwhile, looks from this present tense like an early contender for the best movie of 2019. Or wait, is it 1939?
A.A. Dowd
The A.V. Club
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