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Cinema: Transit by Christian Petzold
2:23 CAT | 22 April 2019
Cinema: Transit by Christian Petzold
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 24 2019 at 19h30
Address: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
About the movie
Transit is a 2018 German drama film written and directed by Christian Petzold. It is based on Anna Seghers's 1942 novel of the same name. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
Georg, at the last moment, flees from Paris to Marseille. But even Marseille is only an intermediate point: in the port city there can be only those who can prove that they are planning to go further, and this means that permission is required to enter a potential country. Georg can do it easily, because his baggage contains documents in the name of the writer Weidel, who committed suicide, and the guarantee of visa issuance by the Mexican consulate. Georg takes Weidel's name, and this allows him to move freely along with all the other refugees in the port city, hoping to get a ticket to the ship.
Refugees congregate in the corridors of a small hotel, in the waiting room of consulates, in cafés and bars in the harbor. George became friends with Driss, the son of his late comrade Heinz, who was killed during an escape attempt. Then he meets Marie Weidel and falls in love with this mysterious woman who is looking for her missing husband, that same writer. (Source: Wikipedia)
About Christian Petzold
Christian Petzold was born in Hilden, Germany in 1960. After studying German and Drama at the Freie Universität Berlin, he enrolled in Berlin's German Academy for Film and Television (DFFB). There he studied film direction while at same time working as an assistant director to Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky. After graduation, Christian Petzold made several interesting TV films. In 2000, his first theatrical feature, The State I Am In (2000), about a couple of left-wing terrorists, is released and makes a strong impression and earning its director both the German Film Award and the Hessischer Best Film Award. By 2012, this prolific creator has managed to make two more TV films and five additional features, among which Yella (2007), the sensitive portrait of a young woman who tries to escape the grip of her violent and possessive husband, and especially Barbara (2012), which won the 'Best Director' award at the Berlinale. This fine drama plunges the viewer into the everyday life atmosphere of the GDR like few films before and serves as a showcase for its director's talents.
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