In Transit (film)

In Transit originally titled In Tranzit is a 2008 RussianBritish drama film based on the true story of German prisoners of war in a Soviet work camp after World War II. The film was directed by Tom Roberts, and stars Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Brhl, Vera Farmiga, and John Malkovich.

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 Colonel 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 treat the prisoners with dignity.Natalia has an agreement with Colonel Pavlov to keep her former lover, who was wounded on the head during the war, in the camp instead of sending him to an institution in Siberia. Pavlov assigns Natalia to disclose the 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 another prisoner, Klaus Daniel Brhl, tries to convince Max to denounce a couple of prisoners to satisfy Pavlov. ........

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