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Transit(2019)

Music Box Films

Not Rated
1h 41m
- Drama
- Sci-Fi

Release Date: Mar 1, 2019 | Limited

6.9

A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.

Releases

Original Release | Mar 1, 2019

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$31,931
Total US & Canada:
$815,290
Total International
$197,457
Total Worldwide:
$1,012,747

Director & Top Cast

Christian Petzold
Director

Bernhard Wicki
. (first version)

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Germany

Summaries

Storyline

German troops are fast approaching Paris. Georg, a German refugee, escapes to Marseille in the nick of time. In his luggage, he carries the documents of an author, Weidel, who has taken his own life in fear of his persecutors. Those documents include a manuscript, letters and visa assurance from the Mexican embassy. Everything changes when Georg falls in love with the mysterious Marie. Is it devotion or calculation that has led her to share her life with a doctor, Richard, before journeying on in search of her husband? He's said to have surfaced in Marseille in possession of a Mexican visa for him and his wife. — AnonymusB As an illegal immigrant in Paris, Georg Seidler is constantly on the run from the police. By chance, he obtains the papers and a manuscript of the writer Weidel, who had previously committed suicide in his hotel room. Georg seizes the opportunity and smuggles himself onto a goods train to Marseille, together with his injured friend Heinz, who does not survive the journey. After arriving in the French harbor city, Georg delivers the sad news to Heinz's deaf wife, Melissa, and their son Driss, with whom he develops a close relationship. At the Mexican consulate, he hopes for a finder's fee for Weidel's documents, but is mistaken for the writer himself and thus obtains transit visas to Mexico for Weidel and his wife Marie. Georg meets the distraught wife several times, who knows nothing of her husband's suicide and continues to hope for his imminent arrival in Marseille. Unaware of Marie's identity, Georg falls in love with her and offers her one of the visas to Mexico. When Heinz's son Driss falls ill, Georg asks the German doctor Richard, who is having an affair with Marie, for help. Georg finds himself in a state of emotional chaos when he identifies Marie as Weidel's wife, who has not given up hope of seeing her husband again and does not want to leave Europe without him. Can Georg tell her the truth? How would she react, and would she even want to board the ship with him? — Arte Free adaptation of Anna Seghers' novel of the same name (1944) about the fate of refugees from the Nazi regime who hope for passage overseas by ship in Marseille before the Germans invade the city. Director Christian Petzold plays with the time periods in a subtle way by setting the adaptation in the 1940s in terms of dialogue and plot, but using contemporary costumes and locations. The story about a young German who assumes the identity of a dead writer in order to be able to use his transit visa and falls in love with his wife while waiting in Marseille thus develops a variety of references: To Seghers' text, to the work of Christian Petzold, whose motifs are reflected in the material, and to the current situation in Europe in times of the refugee crisis.

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