Talk:In Transit (film)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Historical inaccuracies
This unsourced commentary by Nicx333 was removed from the "article" per WP:VERIFY and WP:NOR:
 * There are several events in the movie that are not very likely to have taken place. For example, when NKVD colonel Pavlov (John Malkovich) holds a speech before the public hanging of two SS men from the camp, he says that 8 May is the anniversary for the victory over Nazi Germany, whereas the USSR announced the victory on 9 May 1945 and this date has since then always been the date of Victory Day in Russia. The narration tells us about male POWs being sent to a regular female prison erraneously. But there were no detention camps for prisoners of war on the terriritory of the city of Leningrad or it's surrounding area neither in that period nor after it. So how could such a "mistake" happen, remains unclear. The part about german soldiers playing an orchestra outside of the prison camp and then being released for an entire night out, as well as local Russian women waiting for them outside of the prison is more than unlikely. The story about "Russian girls running with grenades in their hands" at German soldiers does not seem to meet any analogue in reality. The "comission", headed by Pavlov, is shown to visit the camp almost every day, which is also higly unlikely, to say the least. While story develop, spectator is shown horrible conditions and very poor alimentation German POWs are receiving. In reality their conditions were much better in the majority of prison camps throughout the Russia and incomparably better, than those faced by Russian population on occupied, by German Army, territories and especially in besieged, for almost two and a half years, Leningrad. The hanging is taking place in the very city centre of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) right in front of the Peter and Paul Fortress, another event not very likely to have taken place. NKVD usually executed people secretly in places of detention, and by shooting, not by hanging. The public hanging depicted in the movie is more reminiscent of those perpetrated in the occupied parts of the Soviet Union by the Nazis during the war.


 * At the end of the movie, presumably some time in the spring of 1947, lieutenant Elena (Thekla Reuten) enters the office of doctor Natalia (Vera Farmiga) and tells her that "Stalin has made yet another new agreement with the allies" and that "We're sending all the Germans back home". Natalie has already lost her husband Andrej (Yevgeni Mironov), first to mental delusion (supposedly as a result of a head wound obtained during the war) and then when NKVD colonel Pavlov arrests him. Now she also looses her other love, the German POW Max (Thomas Kretschmann). Max and all the other POWs are loaded on a truck and transported off back to Germany. In reality however, the German POWs were held for at least ten years and were released only in 1955, two years after Stalin's death.

Woodlot (talk) 19:32, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

plot summary
The suicide by the girl needs to be added to the summary. Kdammers (talk) 01:29, 30 August 2022 (UTC)