Film & Media Studies "Transit" (Christian Petzold, 2018; 102 min.)

Gripping drama that updates to the present the acclaimed 1943 novel by Anna Seghers about refugees from Nazi Germany. A young man assumes the identity of a deceased writer, hoping to escape Europe through the port of Marseille. Here, he meets the writer’s wife, who – unaware of her husband’s death – involves the man in her own efforts to flee.