As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. After the ball, Natalia convinces Officer Elena (Thekla Reuten) to let the prisoners spend the night with the women. The love scene of him with the nurse is so touching. Here I am several hours after seeing it and the only two things I remember about it was, it wasn't bad and that maybe it was a bit too long. A chronicle of one woman's lifelong struggle with her faith. Your reaction maybe different. Directed by Christian Petzold. I would like to commend the producers for creating a film with unique concept incomparable to other war movies, because instead of tackling the rampant theme of war, they tackled the post-war situation. It tells the story of Franz, an SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Byelorussian woman whose village is massacred. Natalia and the prisoner Max (Thomas Kretschmann) feel a great attraction for each other while the prisoner Klaus (Daniel Brühl) tries to convince Max to denounce a couple of prisoners to satisfy the Russian. The women are suppose to weed out the officers. A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed. Was this review helpful?

... After the ball, Natalia convinces Officer Elena to let the prisoners spend the night with the women. The soldiers tied to Leningrad, Stalingrad, Belorussia and any SS would be killed quickly and garunteed. maybe the part that is true is that the Russians didn't have enough space for all their prisoners, and just dumped four dozen in a lightly staffed women's prison. Or, it's because so many Russian men had been killed that these women were simply man-hungry? This movie was based on a Russian novel and was co-produced and co-filmed in both Russia and parts of the UK. In 1946, a group of German POWs are mistakenly sent to a Soviet female transit prison camp and must cope with the hostility of the Soviet female inmates and guards, under the orders of cruel camp commander Pavlov. Pavlov assigns Natalia to disclose members of the SS infiltrated in the group of prisoners. 10 out of 19 found this helpful. With Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman.

Still, for you history buffs out there, don't miss some fine acting in this film. Menu. If you have basic knowledge of ww2 and topics that relate to this movie, you won't notice the inaccuracies. Natalia convinces the businessman Yakov to organize an orchestra with the prisoners; they are invited to play in a ball, where the lonely women that survived the war dance with the Germans. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization. Even betrayal is not out of the question...no matter what side you are on.

4 out of 15 found this helpful. As fascism spreads, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying. Directed by Tom Roberts. maybe the part that is true is that the Russians didn't have enough space for all their prisoners, and just dumped four dozen in a lightly staffed women's prison.Looking for some great streaming picks? This must have been written for young girls looking at the world through rose coloured glasses, or at least for a very small audience range. Nearly 90% of German POW's died in Russian prison camps - however, Russians were treated no better with an equal rate of demise due … Natalia and the prisoner Max feel a great attraction for each other while the prisoner Klaus tries to convince Max to denounce a couple of prisoners to satisfy the Russian.

Natalia has an agreement with Commander Pavlov to keep her former lover, who was wounded on the head during the war and is slow, in the camp instead of sending him to an institution in Siberia.

Excellent movie. Was this review helpful to you? Amazing performance by Thomas Kretschmann (as always). In Transit (originally titled In Tranzit) is a 2008 Russian-British drama film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Soviet work camp after World War II.The film was directed by Tom Roberts, and stars Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brühl, Vera Farmiga, and John Malkovich. In Tranzit es una película dirigida por Tom Roberts con Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich, Vera Farmiga, Daniel Brühl .... Año: 2008. 31 out of 36 found this helpful. Was this review helpful?

The film was released in Russian cinemas on 4 March 2008 and in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2010. Based on the true story of Louisa Gould, the drama is set during World War II on the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey. 38 out of 47 found this helpful. Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness. This is supposedly based upon a true story. In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Commander Pavlov (John Malkovich). Was this review helpful? In Tranzit is a very well acted movie with a story built on character and emotion surrounding the aftermath of World War 2, rather tha just the cataclysmic large scale political effects of it. Natalia convinces the businessman Yakov (John Lynch) to organize an orchestra with the prisoners; they are invited to play in a ball, where the lonely women that survived the war dance with the Germans. Sometimes films that are "based on true events" push the facts to the side far more than incorporating them into the movie. But German POWs held by the soviets had a mortality rate of over 90%. In the manic aftermath of WWII, in a strange switch of power a group of German POWs are accidentally dumped in a female-run Soviet prison camp. Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.

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