{"product_id":"transit","title":"Transit","description":"Product Description\n\nLOGLINE\n\nPast and present merge in this alluring puzzle from Christian Petzold, which follows Georg (Franz Rogowski), a refugee from fascism who pursues Marie (Paula Beer), the wife of the dead man whose identity he has assumed.\n\nSYNOPSIS\n\nAs fascism spreads, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying. Living among refugees from around the world, Georg falls for Marie (Paula Beer), a mysterious woman searching for her husband—the man whose identity he has stolen. Adapted from Anna Segher’s 1942 novel, TRANSIT shifts the original story to the present, blurring periods to create a timeless exploration of the plight of displaced people.\n\nDIRECTOR´S STATEMENT\n\nThe autobiography of Georg K. Glaser contains a wonderful sentence: “Suddenly, as my flight came to an end, I found myself surrounded by something I termed ‘historical silence.’” Georg K. Glaser was a German communist during the time in which the novel “Transit” by Anna Seghers was set. He fled to France and then to its unoccupied “free zone,” or “zone libre,” to which Marseille belonged.\nHistorical silence is akin to windlessness or still air: the breeze ceases to propel the sailboat, which is enveloped by the vast nothingness of the sea. The passengers have been expunged —from history and from life. They’re cornered in space and in time.\nThe people in TRANSIT have been cornered in Marseille, waiting for ships, visas, and further passage. They’re on the run—there’s no way back for them, and no way forward. Nobody will take them in or care for them. They go unnoticed—except by the police, the collaborators, and security cameras. They’re borderline phantoms, between life and death, yesterday and tomorrow. The present flashes by without acknowledging them. Cinema loves phantoms. Perhaps because it, too, is a space of transit, an interim realm in which we, the viewers, are concurrently absent and present.\nThe people in TRANSIT long to be taken by the stream, the breeze, put into motion. They long for a story of their own and discover the fragment of a novel left behind by an author, the fragment of a narrative about flight, love, guilt, and loyalty. TRANSIT is a story about how these people turn this narrative into their own. — Christian Petzold\n\nReview\n\nLike a remake of CASABLANCA as written by Kafka. --David Ehrlich, IndieWire\n\nExtraordinary! Conceptually daring. --Guy Lodge, Variety\n\nA stunning work. --Vikram Murthi, Rogerebert.com\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 6317775591\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.6317775591.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Franz Rogowski|Paula Beer|Christian Petzold\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Dvd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41402002243642,"sku":"DBV.6317775591.G","price":63.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/6317775591-0.jpg?v=1778261134","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/transit","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}