Director: Christian Petzold, colour, 101 min., 2018
April 20, 2019, 5 PM, IFI Jakarta
April 22, 2019, 7.30 PM, GoetheHaus Jakarta
April 25, 2019, 7 PM, Wisma Jerman Surabaya
April 26, 2019, 7.30 PM, Kineforum Jakarta
Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese
German troops are about to occupy Paris. At the last moment, the German refugee Georg escapes to Marseille. In his bags, the personal effects of the author Weidel, whose fear of those on his heels has led him to commit suicide: a manuscript, letters, and a visa assurance from the Mexican embassy.
Only those who can prove that they will leave are permitted to be in Marseille. Visas for the possible receiving countries are in great demand, as are transit visas and the infrequent ticket for passage by ship. Georg remembers Weidel's papers, and assumes the dead man's identity. He submerges into the uncertain existence of transit.
Everything changes when Georg meets and falls in love with the mysterious Marie. Is it devotion or expediency that has led her to share her life prior to the journey with the doctor Richard, even as she searches for her husband at the same time? He has, people say, surfaced in Marseille with Mexican visas for himself and his wife.
Awards
- Nominated for Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival 2018
- Won Best Film, Nuremberg Film Festival 2018
- Nominated for Best Feature, Chicago International Film Festival 2018
CHRISTIAN petzold
Christian Petzold, the graduate of the Berlin Film and Television Academy, initially worked as an assistant director and director in the short and documentary film industry, before making his debut in 1995 with his first feature film Pilots at the Kleine Fernsehspiel. After Cuba Libre (1996) and Die Beischlafdiebin (1997), Christian Petzold experienced his first great success with The State I Am In (2000). In 2005 he delivered one of the German competition entries at the 55th Berlinale with Gespenster.
Christian Petzold writes his own scripts for his films. He worked closely with Harun Farocki, up until the latter's death in 2014. The screenplay for Transit, freely adapted from Anna Seghers' novel of the same name, is the first screenplay Petzold has written without his former co-author Farocki. In 2018, Christian Petzold was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which annually awards the Oscars.
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