GERMANY · 2018

Transit

Christian Petzold
identity and deception wartime displacement doomed romance existential escape loss and longing
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In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Year2018
CountryGermany
DirectorChristian Petzold
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