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IN TRANZIT is one of those forgotten films the viewer wants to love: an all but unknown bit of history based on a true story that offers a different insight into the universal damage inflicted upon all peoples by WW II. The problem with this production is the embarrassingly weak script by Natalia Portonova and Simon van der Borgh, the unfocused direction by Tom Roberts and the bumpy editing by Paul Carlin. Beautifully photographed by Sergei Astakhov in a manner that emphasizes the brutality of Russian winters, setting a perfect matrix for the drama, this film had potential, but even the isolated acting contributions of a few seasoned actors cannot hide the weak script and the annoying pacing.
1946 and a Russian Women's prisoner of war camp lays unused until it is determined by one evil Russian officer Pavlov (John Malkovich) that it will become a camp for German prisoners of war to ferret out occult members of the Nazi SS group that inflicted such agony on the Russians. The camp is run by a group of angry Russian women soldiers and one Russian physician Natalia (Vera Farmiga) who together with Citizen Zina (Natalie Press) represent the humanistic side of the suffering Russian victims of the German brutality. And so it is German men, including the handsome Max (Thomas Kretschmann) who shares a mutual attraction with Natalia and the enigmatic Klaus (Daniel Brühl) among others, versus the Russian women: role reversal and gender dominance changes create the drama. One key mute figure is Andrei (the brilliant Russian actor Yevgeni Mironov), the psychologically damaged husband of Natalia, who in many ways represents the tragedy of the entire WW II on mankind. How these two groups of people interact and survive the conditions imposed on them forms the story.
Though Farmiga and Kretschmann, Press and Mironov overcome the awkward script in an attempt to suffuse this film with palpable tragedy, the result is a bumpy ride through the obvious pitfalls of amateur film-making. It could have been an important film, but is remains a minor though interesting insight as to the extended effects of war on people's psyches. Grady Harp

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Yikes! Just watched it in Russian. Fortunately I speak enough Russian to understand the voice-over; wish they had kept it in the original English and just added Russian subtitles. Kretschmann, Bruhl, Farmiga and Press all give excellent performances; Evegeny Mironov does the most amazing 'silent' performance since his Russian version of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'. I have no doubt that anti-German sentiment was running high in 1946 in Leningrad; nevertheless, surely there was some hope or ray of sunshine in all the gloom. I am beginning to understand why this film was not marketed in America. Unless you lived through those times, or are a student of history, the subject matter of this film may not have much appeal. Still, for you history buffs out there, don't miss some fine acting in this film.

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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). When they arrive, the Russian female soldiers show the hostility to the enemies that have killed their husbands, families and friends; only Dr. Natalia (Vera Farmiga) and the cook Zina (Natalie Press) treat the prisoners with dignity. Natalia has an agreement with Commander Pavlov to keep her former lover Andrei (Yevgeni Mironov), who was wounded on the head during the war and is slow, in the camp instead of sending him to an institution in Siberia. Pavlov assigns Natalia to disclose members of the SS infiltrated in the group of prisoners. 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. 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. After the ball, Natalia convinces Officer Elena (Thekla Reuten) to let the prisoners spend the night with the women. Natalia has one night stand with Max and while he sneaks back to the quarters, he is attacked by Klaus and saved by Natalia that discovers who Klaus actually is.
'In Tranzit'is the type of movie that has a great potential and could be better and better. Based on a true story, and supported by a great international cast leaded by the awesome Vera Farmiga, John Malkovich, Daniel Brühl, John Lynch and others and magnificent cinematography, costumes and set decoration, unfortunately the screenplay is weak and pointless. The writer seems to be lost in the dramatic conflict of the lonely women in the chaotic post-war with few men in the city but their former enemies; the existence of a criminal of war in the group of prisoners; and the romance of Natalia and Max. I am a fan of the great actress Vera Farmiga, and her interpretation is dramatically intense; her sex scene is beautifully full of passion and heat. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): 'Vítimas da Guerra' ('Victims of the War')

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If you have basic knowledge of ww2 and topics that relate to this movie, you won't notice the inaccuracies. But German POWs held by the soviets had a mortality rate of over 90%. The soldiers tied to Leningrad, Stalingrad, Belorussia and any SS would be killed quickly and garunteed.
Also, in the movie they are trying to root out SS. In reality all the SS had a tattoo on them indicating their blood-type and it certified their racial purity. The soviets knew of these tattoos so a quick strip search would quickly weed out the SS.
The Nazis devastated the Slav populations. They killed commissars on sight, killed almost all Russian POWs, destroyed hundreds of German towns, exterminated Russian civilian populations, broke the German-Russian non-aggression pact, sent civilians and prisoners through mine fields and used them as human shields, kidnapped aryan-looking babies for the lebensborne program, Inacted a scorched-earth policy, starved Leningrad into cannibalisn, committed genocide (especially in belorussia and Ukraine and western Russia, allied with Finland, killing off 80% of all Russian 20 year-old males by 1943, and used Slav women/children as human shields while rushing soviets positions... not to mention officially labeling Russians as 'untermensch' (sub-human) and treated them with a pest-extermination attitude while refusing to acknowledge the Geneva convention; in some cases burning barns full of people and forcing POWs to lay down side by side while they freeze them to death water in order to make a sturdy ice-road.... whole areas of Russia were decimated beyond repair, hundreds of thousands of families were exterminated, countless Slavs became slaves, whole regions were burned and bulldozed to nothing, their Jews were almost wiped out and multiple generations of Russians suffered life-long ptsd.
Factoring all that it is clear to see that the Russians were unrealistically civil and empathetic towards the Germans in this movie. The women working in this camp would almost surely be widows and childless due to the war.
I don't support the treatment of German POWs and civilians after the war.... but to say I can't understand the ruthlessness of the Bolsheviks towards the Germans, would be a lie. I can't imagine the pain that nation experienced while trying to rebuild, recover and re-identify.

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Based on several combined true, harsh and emotional stories of war. 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. The women themselves remembering how it was being in a German POW camp. Memories of whole families, husbands, wives and children massacred are not wasted when the guards are ordered to weed out the SS officers hiding among the prisoners. Each group learns that some prejudices are just not totally justified. Even betrayal is not out of the question...no matter what side you are on.
I really liked the whole atmosphere. It seems like you can feel the cold of the falling snow and smell the exhaust from the Soviet transport trucks. Some outstanding acting from Thomas Kretschmann, Vera Farmiga, Daniel Bruhl and John Malkovich. Also in the cast: Natalie Press, Thekia Reuten, Tatyana Yakovenko, John Lynch and Patrick Kennedy. Some may find IN TRANZIT depressing and even lumbering; you just have to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate it.

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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.
Vera Farmiga is fantastic as the Chief Medical Doctor of a post war POW camp run by women, who are supervised by the mean, sleazy, sadistic General Pavlov (John Malkovich, at his venomous best!). The man who played Farmiga's mute, shell shocked husband was also excellent. The best performance in the film however is Thomas Kretschmann, a severely underrated actor who is subtle and riveting as a German POW who falls in love with the Doctor.
Overall a great movie. 8/10

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Excellent movie. Amazing performance by Thomas Kretschmann (as always). It's hard to see this gorgeous man dressed in drags and looks like hell half of the movie. The love scene of him with the nurse is so touching. The whole movie is a chilling and depressing experience until towards the last 30 minutes of the film. The only part that puzzles me is that after the 'party' organized by the kind-hearted Jew, why were those Russian women so enthralled with the German POW's? Just after one or two dances? The pain and suffering of the war all thrown out of the window? Or, it's because so many Russian men had been killed that these women were simply man-hungry? It's a great movie in the same class of 'the Pianist', go watch it!

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This is supposedly based upon a true story. 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.
Starring Thomas Kretschmann, who managed six roles in 2008 including Wanted and Valkyrie in addition to this one. Also featuring Vera Farmiga (The Departed), who only had four roles in 2008, including The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. She has a deal with the prison Commandant, played by John Malkovich, to protect her lover from being sent to the front. Also along is Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds, The Bourne Ultimatum, 2 Days in Paris, Joyeux Noël), always a welcome addition.
It was definitely a dark and depressing film, made the more so by the constant snow. There are some SS Officers in the mix and Pavlov (Malkovich) is determined to root them out and hang them. He enlists Natalia (Farmiga) for this task. Malkovich was born for roles like this.
It is strange the the women who hated the prisoners in the beginning for killing their families manage to find forgiveness at the end so they can have sex.
It was the acting, not the script that made this worthwhile.

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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.
First, in criticizing this film, we don't actually have to deal much about the screen portrayals because the movie does not include heavy drama. However, even if it does not, we still have to appreciate the fact that the actors and actresses really did well in portraying and none of them were over acting. Although, we cannot disavow as well, that there were some who were under acting.
Second, I love the fact that the producers did not frontline script to make a beautiful movie. They made it as realistic as it could be, for it seemed more natural than others.
Third, The musical scoring is on average, but one thing that really depressed me is the playing of violin by one of the prisoners that wasn't synchronized with the video.
Fourth, I was expecting something more on what I can see on the screen -- something like extreme panning of cameras to switch scenes or some amazing CGIs to depict extreme cruelty -- but then everything seemed to be mainstream.
Fifth, the video quality was good. It was not that dark so that we can clearly see what's happening on screen. It was not that light neither that gives a hinge of some historic feeling.
Lastly, The whole 113 minutes was dull. The only variations were the few sexualities which were obviously done to attract and catch viewers. They may use 'It's a true story' as an excuse for having no pinnacle scenes other than the sexualities, but I believe it could have been better if they used some cliffhangers to retain, for at least, the interest of the viewers.
Overall, I'd give it a rating of 7 out of 10.

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I was disappointed with this story. 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. The movie portrays the Russian soldiers, and the lonely local Russian women, as a bunch of bleeding heart liberals, all but throwing themselves at their Nazi captives who invaded their homeland, raped and murdered their friends and family members, destroyed their homes, and brought war upon them. An implausible love story supposedly based on a true story. From the beginning I was hoping John Malkovich might salvage some small part of this movie by putting a bullet through the head of the traitorous and deceptive Dr. Natalia, and executing all the prisoners, but alas no liberation from a painfully romanticized story ever arrived. This story is ridiculous and portrays many of the female Russian soldiers as weak, incompetent, and downright traitorous.

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Not long after the end of the Second World War German POWs are brought to a Russian camp that is run by women. The women are suppose to weed out the officers. How the two groups eventually come together and some find love, is the story. Okay film is the sort of thing that in entertaining while its on, but if it didn't have a small role for John Malkovich probably wouldn't have found any sort of wide spread release. This isn't to say that the film isn't worth your time, it is if you think your inclined to the subject matter, but at the same time I don't think this is going to be something you remember. 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. Your reaction maybe different.

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