'Transit' Film Screening

Transit (2018) is a drama by Christian Petzold that blends WWII-era narrative with a modern setting to create a haunting, timeless story of exile.

The film follows Georg, a German refugee who escapes to Marseille after Nazi forces occupy France. To gain passage out of the country, he assumes the identity of a deceased writer whose travel papers he carries. As he waits in bureaucratic limbo, Georg becomes entangled with the writer’s estranged wife, Marie, who is desperately searching for her missing husband—unaware Georg is living under his name.

The story explores themes of identity, displacement, and the ghostlike state of refugees caught between past and future, rendered in a surreal world where historical and contemporary elements coexist.

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