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TRANSIT
March 5, 2023
Moderator: Kerri VanderHoff
Panelists: Ben Friedman (Film) and Donovan Anderson & Katharina Häusler-Gross (Culture)

Director: Christian Petzold
Year: 2018
Country: Germany
In a dystopian Europe that has succumbed to fascism, a German man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Festival Premiere
2018 Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection
Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, Nominee
2019 National Board of Review Awards
Outstanding Feature Film, Nominee
69th German Film Awards

"By turns intimate and expansive, Transit is a thrilling, at times harrowing labyrinth of a movie. Petzold draws from both the traditional European art film and the mainstream commercial cinema without embracing their orthodoxies."
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"It’s a lesson in empathy for the stateless, and yet for all its inferences, both historical and contemporary, there’s a depth of yearning in its heart that’s not so far from Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca."
-- Trevor Johnston, Little White Lies
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