Refugees in "Transit" - Screening & History Talk with Dr. Swen Steinberg
When:
Sunday, September 21, 2025
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Where:
The Screening Room Movie Theatre, 120 Princess Street, Kingston
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Description:
Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" adapts Anna Seghers’ novel from 1944, following Georg, a German refugee in Nazi-occupied France who assumes a dead writer’s identity to escape via Marseille. By setting the story in a modern, ahistorical France, the movie blurs past and present and captures the timeless struggles of refugees between displacement, bureaucracy, identity loss, and existential despair.
Dr. Swen Steinberg (Department of History and School of Religion at Queen’s University) will introduce the film and lead a post-screening discussion. The screening is presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and the Department of History at Queen's University.
September 21, 2025
3.30pm
French & German language with English subtitles
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