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Transit
Transit | 101mins | German, French with English Subtitles
German refugee Georg flees to Marseille and fascism spreads across Europe. He's lucky enough to find a dead man's papers, and he quickly amends them so he can use them for himself. But in Marseille's refugee community, he soon meets and falls for Marie, the wife of the man whose identy Georg has stolen. Her husband had the papers she needed to escape to safety. The papers are gone, but George will still try to help her.
Adapted from Anna Segher's 1942 novel, Transit transposes the original story to the present to create a timeless exploration of the plight of displaced people.
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