Transit
Die deutschen Truppen stehen vor Paris. Georg entkommt im letzten Moment nach Marseille. Im Gepäck hat er die Hinterlassenschaft des Schriftstellers Weidel, der sich aus Angst das Leben genommen hat: ein Manuskript, Briefe, die Zusicherung eines mexikanischen Visums. Georg nimmt die Identität von Weidel an, versucht eine Schiffspassage zu ergattern. Doch dann begegnet er der geheimnisvollen Marie. Transit beruht auf Anna Seghers' gleichnamigem Roman aus dem Jahr 1942, Schauplatz des Films ist jedoch das heutige Marseille. Geflüchtete von damals treffen auf Geflüchtete von heute, und alle Erzählungen verbinden sich zu einem Transitraum.
There are those who treat melodrama as a dirty word, but no working filmmaker gives it a crisper reputation than German auteur Christian Petzold, whose anti-historical experiment Transit registers as his most conceptually daring lm to date. A refugee portrait that piles contrivance upon contrivance to somehow land at a place of piercing emotional acuity, this adaptation of Anna Seghers' 1942 novel takes a brazen risk right off the bat by stripping its story – about a German concentration camp survivor seeking passage to North America in Nazi-occupied France – of any external period trappings, relocating it to present day. (Guy Lodge, Variety)
Director's Biography
Christian Petzold
Born in 1960, he studied German and theatre at Freie Universität Berlin and film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Whilst there he worked as an assistant director to Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky. In 1995 he directed his first feature film. “The State I Am In” (2000) won the German Film Award in Gold. In 2012 he won the Silver Bear for Best Director with “Barbara” at the Berlinale.
Film Selection: Transit (2018) — Phoenix (2014) — Barbara (2012) — Jerichow (2008) — Yella (2007) — Gespenster (Ghosts, 2005) — Die innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In, 2001) — Pilotinnen (1995)
Born in 1960, he studied German and theatre at Freie Universität Berlin and film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Whilst there he worked as an assistant director to Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky. In 1995 he directed his first feature film. “The State I Am In” (2000) won the German Film Award in Gold. In 2012 he won the Silver Bear for Best Director with “Barbara” at the Berlinale.
Film Selection: Transit (2018) — Phoenix (2014) — Barbara (2012) — Jerichow (2008) — Yella (2007) — Gespenster (Ghosts, 2005) — Die innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In, 2001) — Pilotinnen (1995)
European Panorama Fiction 2018
Christian Petzold
Deutschland / Frankreich 2018
color
101 Minuten
Deutsch / Französisch OmdU
Schnitt Bettina Böhler
Ton/Sounddesign Andreas Mücke-Niesytka
Musik Stefan Will
Mit Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Produzent*innen Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Antonin Declet
Produktion
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, Neon Productions
Österreichpremiere
Rechte Österreich / Austrian Rights
Stadtkino
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Berlinale 2018
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
