Christian Petzold | Transit Q&A

Christian Petzold discusses Transit at a sneak preview on the opening night of his retrospective. Transit is now playing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center: www.filmlinc.o...
In Petzold’s brilliant and haunting adaptation of German novelist Anna Seghers’s 1944 book Transit, a hollowed-out European refugee (Franz Rogowski), who has escaped from two concentration camps, arrives in Marseille assuming the identity of a dead novelist whose papers he is carrying. He enters the arid, threadbare world of the refugee community, where he becomes enmeshed in the lives of a desperate young mother and son and a mysterious woman named Marie (Paula Beer). Transit is a film told in two tenses: 1940 and right now, historic past and immediate present, like two translucent panes held up to the light and mysteriously contrasting and blending. An NYFF56 selection. A Music Box Films release.
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[@enriquevivar27]

One of the most intelligent directors of this decade and his generation. Genre and introspection in his signture. A genius.

[@conradpoos2859]

Just watched Transit on Amazon Prime. Phenomenal film.

[@nope5657]

Love it when an acclaimed arthouse filmmakers gives put unpretentious appreciation for genuine, muscular movie making.

[@cinemundoafora1456]

Marvellous movie. I'll watch again after this interview!

[@CitizenDevi]

Nice to see how similar both Annihilation and Transit were adapted. Both writers/directors did only once read the book and then just wrote about it what they remember. Pretty genius.

[@arta1575]

"because Marseille is a corrupt city" LOL

[@cinemundoafora1456]

Marvellous movie. I'll watch again after this interview!