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Transit

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
12K
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Franz Rogowski in Transit (2018)
As fascism spreads, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying. Living among refugees from around the world, Georg falls for Marie (Paula Beer), a mysterious woman searching for her husband the man whose identity he has stolen. Adapted from Anna Seghers 1942 novel, TRANSIT shifts the original story to the present, blurring periods to create a timeless exploration of the plight of displaced people.
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A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.

  • Director
    • Christian Petzold
  • Writers
    • Christian Petzold
    • Anna Seghers
  • Stars
    • Franz Rogowski
    • Paula Beer
    • Godehard Giese
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    12K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Christian Petzold
    • Writers
      • Christian Petzold
      • Anna Seghers
    • Stars
      • Franz Rogowski
      • Paula Beer
      • Godehard Giese
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    • 65User reviews
    • 140Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 9 wins & 27 nominations total

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    Franz Rogowski
    Franz Rogowski
    • Georg
    Paula Beer
    Paula Beer
    • Marie
    Godehard Giese
    Godehard Giese
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    Maryam Zaree
    Maryam Zaree
    • Melissa
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    Barbara Auer
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    Grégoire Monsaingeon
    Elisa Voisin
    • Director
      • Christian Petzold
    • Writers
      • Christian Petzold
      • Anna Seghers
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    User reviews65

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    7dascalu_mihai

    Intricate, unexpected story

    What I liked: the intertwined and unexpected developments of this love triangle (or square?) of WW2 refugees in Marseille... ingeniously "teleported" in the current days. What I didn't like: the somehow uncertain adaptation to a story of seemingly current events...
    8benny-rigaux-bricmont

    Remarkable

    Very well acted this movie reproduces perfectly the depressing mood of the time when the book was written(1944). Great idea to place it in the modern France.
    7Xstal

    A Passage, Originally Reimagined...

    Being original in the medium of film, when coupled with a fresh perspective for commonly repeated stories and themes, can lead to memorable performances with unique and refreshing interpretations, as seen here (although it seldom works with Shakespeare unless you modernise the dialogue). A 1940s passage is reimagined today within the bounds of those trying to escape conflict at a French port through any means they can establish, with the ever present threat of the authorities constantly and aggressively trying to prevent them. While the times may have changed and their reasons for escape evolved, this dilemma still remains in the real world today for some, to migrate at haste to survive.
    MovieIQTest

    Exactly like a dog chasing its tail but never succeeded

    What a lousy, clueless and messy movie. If this was adapted faithfully from a novel, then I'd say that novel also sucks big time! The movie was lazily trying to prescribe a chaos when the German Nazi had invaded the France in WWII, but didn't bother to change everything to look alike the 1940s. The lousy director decided just to use the current French localities such as Paris and Marseille to shoot this movie, so all the things showed in it were uptodate current, vehicles were all present models, cities were full of illegal immigrants from Africa, all the police forces were geared in modern weaponry. The worst and the weirdest thing of this movie was the ridiculous mix up of the languages, the narrative was in German, the characters who played those desperate German Jews fled to France, and all the consulars of the foreign nations, all speaking German, but sometimes, French was suddenly the major dialog.

    If this movie was adapted from the specific novel, I don't think the author was in a very stable mental condition. What she tried to deliver was nothing but chaotic mixed-ups, then complete further messed up by the brainless screenplay writers and the moronic director.

    The movie was a complete MESS! Some of the reviewers tried to show they were deeper and more intelligent than the other viewers, so they completely understood what's going on in this poorly scripted and brainlessly directed movie, but actually this movie got nothing to do with anything at all. A movie so lazily made without any endeavor, not even in the least to try as the TV series, "The Man in the High Castle", was such a shameless and shameful poor product by the German movie industries. A movie so shamelessly tried to fool the viewers with some stupid modern day "Existentialism" touch was just disgusting!
    7MadamWarden

    TRANSITORY DYSTOPIAN RETRO DRAMA

    This is an excellent, if somewhat heavy drama. Excellent acting. The plot obviously romanticised and, given the dystopian premise, unbelievable yet eminently relatable. A reverse WWII refugee story of love and self realisation.

    I enjoyed it and certainly felt a note of anguish at refugee plights the world over.

    A good movie!

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    • Trivia
      According to Christian Petzold, this movie is the last chapter of his trilogy called "Love in Times of Oppressive Systems". The trilogy also includes Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014).
    • Quotes

      Georg: A man had died. He was to register in hell. He waited in front of a large door. He waited a day, two. He waited weeks. Months. Then years. Finally a man walked past him. The man waiting addressed him: Perhaps you can help me, I'm supposed to register in hell. The other man looks him up and down, says: But sir, this here is hell.

    • Connections
      Features Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      Karneval der Tiere - Der Kuckuck
      Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performed by Franz Rogowski (uncredited)

      (c) copyright control

      Recorded by Stefan Will

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    • Release date
      • March 1, 2019 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Neon Productions (France)
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • German
      • French
      • French Sign Language
    • Also known as
      • Транзит
    • Filming locations
      • Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
    • Production companies
      • Schramm Film
      • Neon Productions
      • Arte France Cinéma
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $815,290
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $31,931
      • Mar 3, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,012,747
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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