Transit (2010)

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Movie
Original title transit
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Philipp Leinemann
script Philipp Leinemann
production Max Frauenknecht
Khaled Kaissar
Balint Tolnay-Knefely
Benedikt Böllhoff
music Christoph Zirngibl
camera Christian Stangassinger
cut Max Fey
occupation

Transit (DVD title: Transit - At the end of the street ) is a fiction film by the German director Philipp Leinemann from 2010 . The film was also the graduation film at the University of Television and Film Munich . The drama about a truck driver (played by Clemens Schick ) celebrated its premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2010, where it won the producer award at the German Film Award . The film was shown at the Biberach Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival .

Transit was produced by Viafilm in coproduction with Kaissar Film and the University of Television and Film Munich.

action

Truck driver Martin is about to be given notice. Even outside of the statutory driving hours , it is hardly possible for him to deliver his loads on time. Martin is finished, but he needs this job. Reluctantly, the freight forwarder Roland lets himself be persuaded to do one last probationary tour. During a stopover, the prostitute Ramona asks Martin to take a piece with her.

At this point in time Martin does not yet know that Ramona is fleeing from her pimp, who is closer to them than they suspect.

background

Philipp Leinemann worked as a part-time truck driver for several years. At the film school, his fellow student Arbia-Magdalena Said spoke to him, who wanted to make a film in a working-class environment. In "Transit" he processes the experience of sadness and the reality of the often transfigured dream of adventure on the street into a contemporary workers' drama. For further research he had many conversations with drivers at motorway service stations. Leinemann later found the praise for the realistic representation from circles of drivers to be one of the most important feedback. With this drama, Leinemann wanted to show the fate of truck drivers "at a time when it has become impossible to be on time. They are in a quandary, either they keep their rest times and risk their job, or they drive on, to arrive on time and may lose your driver's license. "

Although the film was later bought by Bayerischer Rundfunk , the project threatened to fail at the beginning because it had to be produced without the participation of a television station. Nevertheless, the young filmmaker was able to attract well-known actors. Clemens Schick plays the truck driver Martin, who tries to escape his life and meets Ramona, played by Annika Blendl . Established actors such as Andreas Hoppe as freight forwarder Roland and Bernd Michael Lade as pimp Schäfert can be seen in other roles . Jürgen Vogel has a guest appearance in the role of the truck driver Ditsche.

Reviews

The reviews of the television broadcast were mostly positive.

  • Jan Wiele wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) that Transit was an unusual and intense film. Above all, the portrayal of Clemens Schick and Bernd Michael Lade was praised.
  • Kino.de wrote: “Director Philipp Leinemann himself was a truck driver for a while and with his film shows the viewer a knowledgeable and exciting insight into this world, which is probably foreign to most viewers. In doing so, he avoids both trivialization and exposure. The film received the German Film Award at the Munich Film Festival in 2010, to which the great ensemble [...] contributed not least. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clearance Certificate for Transit - Life is a Autobahn . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; DVD).
  2. ↑ Interview with Philipp Leinemann with filmreporter.de. Retrieved October 30, 2014 .
  3. ^ Transit at Kino.de, accessed on May 7, 2012