Exclusive: The "Phoenix" and "Barbara" filmmaker offers another slice of unique drama that refuses to adhere to convention (and is all the better for it). Despite often trafficking in dark themes in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The conceptual twist with Transit is a doozy. Adapting a 1944 novel by Anna Seghurs, Petzold has taken a Holocaust narrative and moved it to the present day without altering the basic parameters of ...

“You want short answers?” asks Christian Petzold, after a long haul on a hypermodern vape pen in the upper-level lounge of the Berlin International Film Festival’s luxurious Filmpalast. “We can try it ...

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 ...