The period piece is one of the most contradictory and limited forms of storytelling, its lavish pageantry frequently distancing stories from the viewer while also bending over backward to attempt ...

Early on in “Transit,” the quietly extraordinary new movie from the German writer-director Christian Petzold, a man named Georg (Franz Rogowski) arrives at a hotel to deliver two letters, only to ...

Take “Casablanca,” remove all the fun parts, and set it in the present day. It’s not such an odd idea. In Christian Petzold’s “Transit,” it feels eerily natural, and that’s both horrifying and ...

Christian Petzold's film updates a classic tale of wartime secrecy to draw eerie historical parallels. Simultaneously breezy and brutal, Transit is elusive neo-noir, a tale of lost hearts and minds.

Both entertaining and political, Christian Petzold’s Transit is a film that cleverly trades on familiarity. Its story of desperate emigrés seeking transit passes out of occupied territory will ring ...

Calum Marsh: Transit is the first Petzold film since 2008’s Jerichow productively free of this compulsive perfectionism You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...

A refugee’s life is one of lies, documents, betrayals, fear, fleeting tenderness and the desperate need, once everything has been stripped away, for reinvention across the borders of foreign lands.

Hot on the heels of its premiere in-competition at the Berlin Film Festival this weekend, a trailer has arrived for the new film by German filmmaker Christian Petzold (Jerichow, Barbara, Phoenix) ...

Despite often trafficking in dark themes in his films — his last three films all center around seemingly normal people whose lives are ravaged by corrupt and often evil governments — filmmaker ...

EXCLUSIVE: German sales agent boards next project from the director of Phoenix [pictured]. The Match Factory has boarded international sales for Christian Petzold’s next feature Transit, a ...

In Christian Petzold’s superbly deft drama, a fugitive steals someone else’s identity with deeply disturbing results Christian Petzold is the film-maker renowned as a modern master of suspense and a ...