Transit
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 41m
Directed by Christian Petzold | 101 mins | 2018
The first fraught and steamy pairing of Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski by acclaimed writer-director Christian Petzold—followed by 2020’s "Undine"—proved one of the best films of 2018, and a breakthrough for the beguiling Rogowski. Building on themes Petzold explored in "Phoenix" (2014), "Transit" boldly transposes Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel of the same name—about a refugee who adopts another man’s identity in a bid to escape Nazi-occupied France—to the present day.
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