Friday, 10 March 2023: Transit
Friday, 10 March 2023, 20:00
Venue: (see Locations and Tickets for further details)
Programme category: Forest Row Film Society
Director: Christian Petzold, Germany/France 2018, 101 mins, 12A
"A profound meditation on the dehumanizing condition of statelessness" Chicago Reader
Based on Anna Segher’s 1942 semi-autobiographical novel, Transit is set in contemporary Marseille but takes place in then still free WWII-Southern France. Georg, a Jewish German refugee, made it to Marseille under a false identity. While waiting for his papers and passage he falls in love with his ghost identity’s beautiful widow. A story about the state of being neither there nor here, about shame, guilt and the urgency to do everything necessary to escape an oppressive system.
"Transit is perhaps his most mysterious film, certainly one of his more austere and challenging works. And because of its thoroughgoing dismantling of illusion, it’s perhaps his oeuvre’s starkest instance of pure storytelling" Film Comment
