Transit
2018 · Movie · 102 min · ★ 6.7 · 89% critics
A fugitive trying to escape a fascist crackdown takes on a dead writer’s identity and ends up stranded in a port city where refugees wait for precious travel papers. As the days stretch on, a chance romance and the pressure of paperwork turn survival into a tense, uncertain limbo.
Based on Transit Visa
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Details
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-04-05
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 89/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (266 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a thoughtful, atmosphere-heavy refugee drama with an unusual modern-yet-period feel, similar to Phoenix or Barbara; Not for you if you need fast pacing, clear motivations, and warm emotional payoffs.
Pros: inventive time-blended setting; timely refugee themes; tense bureaucratic stakes | Cons: slow, repetitive pacing; distant, hard-to-read characters; distracting voiceover narration
Themes
- based on novel or book
- identity
- marseille, france
- fascism
- deaf
- young boy
- impersonation
- visa fraud
Cast & crew
Franz Rogowski
as Georg
Paula Beer
as Marie
Godehard Giese
as Richard
- LB
Lilien Batman
as Driss
Barbara Auer
as Architect / Frau
Matthias Brandt
as Bartender / Narrator
Sebastian Hülk
as Paul
Àlex Brendemühl
as Mexican Consul
Ronald Kukulies
as Heinz
Maryam Zaree
as Melissa
Directed by Christian Petzold