In 'Transit,' A Man Fleeing Fascists Gets Caught In A Web Of Mistaken Identity
German director Christian Petzold adapts a 1944 Holocaust novel by setting it in the modern day. The result is a haunting and beguiling narrative of 21st-century displacement.
In his last three features, the brilliant German director Christian Petzold has made mysterious, arresting and subtly heartbreaking dramas about characters fighting against the headwinds of history. In 2012's , his longtime muse Nina Hoss plays an East German doctor whose suspected subversion gets her exiled to the country practice, where she can be more closely managed. Hoss again starred in his 2014 hit , a Hitchcockian story of dual identity about a concentration camp, Petzold follows a humble technician who flees the German occupation as it pushes through France, pinning him and others in the port city of Marseille.
