Courtesy of Music Box Films
NEW RELEASE
Transit
Part of
Transit
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image – Bartos Screening Room
Dir. Christian Petzold. France/Germany. 2018. 101 mins. In French and German with English subtitles. With Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree. In Christian Petzold’s haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel, Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie (Paula Beer). View trailer
"An existential thriller about loss, trauma, statelessness, and historical amnesia, Transit is the latest from the German director Christian Petzold, an electrifying, original filmmaker. [An] extraordinary, haunted movie."—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Tickets: $15 ($7 Museum members / free for Silver Screen members and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)
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Ticket purchase includes same-day admission to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join online, visit our membership page.
