Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book first published in 1944. Seghers is famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. “Transit” is an existential, political, literary ...

The novel set in Vichy Marseilles after France fell to Nazi Germany has been released by Qoqnush Publications in Tehran. Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book. Written in German, it was ...

TRANSIT — Anna Seghers — Little, Brown ($2.50). “About this man Weidel,” said the French hotel proprietress, a few days after the Nazis entered Paris. “He came in, trembling. … He didn’t want to ...

“There aren’t any old times,” Joseph Cotten says with a grind of boundless optimism in “The Magnificent Ambersons,” a movie made during wartime, 1942. “When times are gone, they’re not old, they’re ...

Christian Petzold’s Transit, a frontrunner in the Berlinale competition, turns Anna Seghers’ World War II novel of exile into a cautionary tale about present-day developments. Christian Petzold’s ...

German film-maker Christian Petzold elegantly adapts Anna Seghers’s 1944 novel in this tightly coiled thriller about a refugee who flees Nazi occupation and awaits safe passage to Mexico in the port ...

We learn very little about Georg, the hero of Christian Petzold’s new film, “Transit.” In exile from Germany, he arrives in Marseilles with few possessions of his own, very little time, and the ...