TRANSIT

Schramm Film and Christian Petzold have come together for their 11th collaboration on the director’s latest feature, TRANSIT, a contemporary reworking of Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel about refugees attempting to flee through Marseille after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940.

Franz Rogowski portrays a man on the run from the Germans, who assumes the identity of a dead writer. Arriving in Marseille, he meets and falls in love with the writer’s unsuspecting widow (Paula Beer) who wants to start a new life in South America.