'Transit' trivia and fun facts

End of the trilogy

According to Christian Petzold, 'Transit' is the last chapter of his trilogy called "Love in times of oppressive systems". The trilogy also includes 'Barbara' (2012) and 'Phoenix' (2014).

Based on real events

Anna Seghers, author of the novel the film is based on, was a woman of Jewish family that had to emigrate to Marselle to hide away in Mexico.

A paradox

Most of the things (cars, military uniforms etc) in this film couldn't physically exist unless the nazis were defeated, making the film paradoxical and therefore a sci-fi.

Anna Seghers´s transit

According to Christian Petzold, in a way, all the scripts that he and his late collaborator Harun Farocki developed together were based more or less on the transit of the novelist Anna Seghers.