Transit (2018)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 101 minuten
Country:
Germany / France
Directed by: Christian Petzold
Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer and Ronald Kukulies
IMDb score:
6,9 (12.731)
Releasedate: 25 April 2018
Transit plot
1942, Paris. Georg escapes from a labor camp and hides from the Nazis, but flees again at the last minute before his arrest. He gets hold of the papers of the deceased writer Weidel, whose identity he assumes. He flees under the false name to the south of France, in the hope of meeting fellow political citizens there. In the port city of Marseille, Georg meets Marie Weidel, who has been waiting there for weeks for her husband's arrival. The two lonely souls embark on a passionate affair, but Marie has very different plans than Georg.
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Georg
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Wirt/Erzähler
Paul
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Heinz
Melissa
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2490 messages
- 1702 votes
This film did not go down well with me. I thought I was going to see a film set in WWII, but right from the opening scenes it becomes clear that the film was deliberately shot with contemporary Europe as the backdrop, with clear references to the current refugee crisis. I was confused for a moment: had I perhaps read the description of another film and was this film not about WWII but about the current refugee problem? In short: it is a film that very conspicuously uses a story from WWII to portray contemporary Europe as a copy of Nazi Germany and to morally wash our ears: it is a disgrace that we simply continue happily with our lives while refugees live among us in inhumane conditions that are directly comparable to the refugees in WWII.
I know that in the spirit of demagogy and cutting thick planks of wood some people are fond of making comparisons with WWII, but I don't care for them. I think it's comparing apples and oranges. And even if there is truth in it, this film uses the medium of film as political propaganda. Again, I don't like this. I find the film distasteful.
As for the story, the change of identity and the resulting intrigues are still nice, but of course not very original, and that's about all that is positive. Overall, the story did not appeal to me, simply because literally every event and every sentence in the film is thought up to be able to make a comparison with the current refugee crisis (including the drowning among those who dare to cross). Everything in the film is therefore subordinate to the political message and the film suffers greatly from that. Even Spike Lee and Michael Moore bring their propaganda much more subtly and digestibly.
In short, this politically virtuous film is precisely for that reason an artistically flawed film.
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Cinsault
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- 243 messages
- 516 votes
A film that manages to intrigue for a long time, but eventually becomes a drag and more or less bursts like a balloon. In Transit, Georg is on the run (from whom actually?) and tries to get out of France, which is being purged (from whom actually?) and to obtain the right documents for this. The scenario may be intelligently constructed, but was and remained confusing to me, which meant that I never really got a grip on the film. Perhaps that was also the explicit intention of the director, given the clear relationship with the current refugee problem, in which refugees in Europe also have little or no control over their situation due to the way in which they are treated and left in the dark for a long time.
The story has elements of a thriller, but it never really gets exciting. In addition, the film raises so many questions that are not answered that it is unsatisfactory. If Transit is mainly supposed to be an associative film, in which the parallel with the current refugee drama in Europe is obvious and perhaps also condemned, and in which the viewer is mainly allowed to fill in for himself what he saw in it, then that is a huge blunder in this case. Especially because the film did not touch me on that theme and did not make me think.
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
The story about a refugee in a France that is being 'purified', although it is never entirely clear in what way. It is a somewhat artificial attempt to - at least, I suspect so - give the problem of refugees (human traffickers, traitors) a modern twist. However, it is mainly confusing and the story about a man who pretends to be a writer and his trouble with two women does not make it any better. Director and screenwriter Christian Petzold lets the most dramatic moments (including a suicide) pass us by without any build-up and too often relies on voice-overs that are supposed to mask his shortcomings as a director but only underline them. Too bad, because the acting is beyond reproach.
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