In Tranzit

Synopsis: 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. When they arrive, the Russian female soldiers show the hostility to the enemies that have killed their husbands, families and friends; only Dr. Natalia and the cook treat the prisoners with dignity. Natalia has an agreement with Commander Pavlov to keep her former lover, 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 feel a great attraction for each other while the prisoner Klaus tries to convince Max to denounce a couple of prisoners to satisfy the Russian. Natalia convinces the businessman Yakov 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 t
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): Tom Roberts
Production: Peace Arch Films
 
IMDB:
5.8
R
Year:
2008
113 min
135 Views


Look up. Up!

Come on, get up!

Get up, I said!

Get up!

Hello.

This is Captain Olga Alexandrova, Hello.

I want to speak to Colonel...

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Colonel Pavlov!

Colonel Pavlov - what a pleasure.

Andrei...

...I've brought you some new medicine.

How are the headaches? Any better?

Olga's trying to find us

some more work to do.

So, while the camp is empty,

you should get some more rest.

She has to keep busy otherwise

she remembers too much.

Like all of us.

Men?

Germans?

German men.

Looks like Comrade Pavlov is playing

one of his little jokes on us.

The gate was open.

The camp is empty, Captain.

It isn't now, Lieutenant.

There was 53.

Sign here.

You can always

make an official complaint.

It's bloody cold.

We need those jackets.

Not yet.

They're just a bunch of women -

They don't know what to do with us.

Let's just see what happens.

Wait.

Don't shoot!

You killed my whole family, you f***ers!

You killed my whole family, you f***ers!

Quiet! Quiet.

The war is over.

Please.

This is for my sister!

This is for Sasha!

Get her off him!

Get up!

Get up! Walk!

Walk! Move on!

Bastards!

Go!

That was close.

You could have got us all killed.

He was a good guy.

Heave!

Come on, get him up.

Those Russian b*tches!

What do you expect

after what we did to them?

Olga said 48 of them died

in a mine in Sverdlovsk.

We've to request more food.

Natalia you don't really think

we should look after them, do you?

They were starved at that mine!

That's what should

happen to them here!

Remember what

we had to eat in Leningrad?

Let them eat the same!

They're swine. They're used to it.

Schmidt?

Yes.

Schenfelder?

No, Schoenfelder.

Don't be cheeky!

Vogel?

Yes.

Weber?

Weber?

Weber?

That's Weber.

Corporal Weber.

Corporal Martin Heinrich Weber.

Oh for God's sake, Olga, call her off!

Vera, that's enough!

Wirth?

Yes.

Nehring?

Yes.

Muller?

Diarrhoea?

We've all had it.

Given what they fed us at the mine.

Men have got painful joints,

bleeding gums, loose teeth, scurvy...

Are you a doctor?

No.

What is your name?

Bort.

Max Bort.

What is wrong with him?

He took some shrapnel in the head.

They patched him up.

Seems harmless enough.

We're all harmless.

Thank you.

Get out of here before I report you!

The good doctor.

Thank you for permitting this.

Colonel Pavlov, such a pleasure!

The pleasure is all mine, Captain.

Thank you.

Though I have heard some

rather unfortunate rumours.

What is it, Colonel Pavlov?

A little bird told me that...

...your prisoners are having

the time of their lives.

Is that true,

Captain Olga Alexandrova?

Most definitely not, Colonel Pavlov.

Excellent! That's just what

I wanted to hear, Captain.

Now, I must go and see

the prisoners' medical reports.

Of course.

Please.

But I will see the doctor alone,

thank you.

Thank you, Comrade.

We could do with the provisions

we asked for, Comrade.

And some more medicine.

We won't survive the winter

with what you sent so far.

You underestimate yourselves,

Comrade.

How is Andrei?

Andrei?

I saw him out by the gate.

Doing his usual tricks.

He seemed better.

Though, perhaps it might be

best for both of you...

...if he were in a proper sanatorium.

No, I can look after him better here.

Well, I'm sure you can, Comrade.

Listen, let me share something

with you.

Intelligence tells us

that in this camp alone...

...there might be several

high-ranking war criminals...

...hiding amongst the prisoners.

The Party wants results.

So we'll be keeping the Germans here

until we achieve them.

And I was thinking...

...that someone who got to know

the prisoners personally...

...one might say intimately...

...might have the best chance of

ascertaining the truth.

Someone the prisoners trusted.

Someone with integrity and...

...like, er, say a doctor, perhaps?

What are you asking me to do,

Comrade?

What do you think I'm asking you to do,

Comrade?

Come on. Move on quickly.

Move on, I said!

Comrade Pavlov, rest assured

our number one priority is...

Come over here, child.

Come.

What is your name?

Zin...

I'm sorry - Citizen Tyomina.

You were laughing so merrily.

Why?

Take off your coat.

My coat?

Yes. Take it off.

Face me.

Take off your blouse.

And the brassiere.

The brassiere, take it off. Now!

Do it!

Let your fascist boyfriend see.

Ah, such a good doctor.

I know exactly what's going on

in this camp.

Comrade Pavlov...

I outrank you, Peter...

...so this is an order:

stay away from her.

Stay away from all of them...

You never know

what you might catch.

He's right. Russian women are

the Devil's own b*tches.

Not all of them.

Some were quite sweet.

You had Russian girlfriends?

Hey, Muller -did I or did I not have

Russian girlfriends, huh?

Oh, yeah, farm-boy...

...I had Russian girlfriends all right.

That was a direct contravention

of orders.

I carried out my orders, Klaus -

don't you worry about that.

Just didn't waste any bullets on them-

that's all.

You were lucky today.

Keep your head down,

and you might get out of here alive.

All those German soldiers

staring at her...

...like they'd never seen

a real woman before!

He knows something.

He just likes to scare us.

I wonder who his 'little bird' is.

What did the two of you talk about?

He just wanted to see the prisoners'

medical reports, that's it.

Don't tell me you suspect me?

I suspect everyone.

You save someone who knows,

he may turn out to be a war criminal.

You inform on someone else,

he may be innocent...

...Pavlov hangs him anyway

and you're not sent away.

And it's all so very, very logical.

- Out. Out!

- Out! Quick!

Out!

Line up!

Out! Quickly!

Is this all of them?

All present and correct.

When you were taken prisoner...

...each of you was ordered to

provide us with your full details.

Some of you did not.

Some of you lied, some of you

invented new names.

This was perfectly understandable...

...given the nature of your crimes.

But for those of you who took part in...

...the terrible actions of the SS...

...a new name will be

of no comfort to you.

You will be found.

And when we find you...

...you will be treated

not as a prisoner of war...

...but as a war criminal.

In 1941, in the occupied region

of Leningrad...

...the 8th SS Division

under the command...

...of a Colonel Heinrich Lombard...

...and with the aid of

a Captain Erik Neivach...

...committed certain illegal acts.

Together, they conspired to murder...

...Soviet citizens...

...men, women and children.

Name?

- Nehring - Arthur Nehring.

- Name?

- Nehring.

- Name?

Nehring.

Name?

Muller - Ernst Muller.

Why are you nervous, soldier?

He's scared.

We're defeated.

We're at your mercy.

So - we're all scared.

Yes.

Nehring, Muller step forward.

Captain Neivach.

It was not me.

It was him!

He gave the orders! The Colonel...

...he's the one you want!

It's not me, I'm innocent!

Colonel Lombard.

Rest assured, no-one...

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