John Malkovich stars as a sadistic Soviet officer alongside multi-award nominated star Vera Farmiga in the tough prisoner of war camp drama In Tranzit, which makes its DVD debut courtesy of Universal Pictures.
This hard-hitting war drama features an outstanding performance from Malkovich alongside freshly Oscar®, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Farmiga, who starred in Up In The Air and Thomas Kretschmann (Valkyrie, The Pianist). It arrives on DVD on 31 May 2010.
Malkovich, eponymous star of Being John Malkovich, as well as Burn After Reading, Con Air and Of Mice And Men, rules the roost over a female run Soviet prison camp at the end of the Second World War.
But the dynamic shifts abruptly when group of German prisoners of war are inadvertently sent to the camp. And as the women officers attempt to weed out SS officers aiming to avoid execution, bonds form, relationships develop and the lines between captor and prisoner begin to blur.
I've no doubt know how bad the Germans were treated by the Russians as prisoners but this movie looks like gloss, glitter, and romance with empty and less developed characters, the kind of recipe they popularly put in the never changing mundane hollywood movies filled with good looking people and blank acting. John Malkovich might be worth a watch though.
newfful 1 month ago
@DraGorian777 Man, they were treated awful. Until 1945, only 1 in 12 survived in their camps. After the war...well:Take the 6th German Army (Stalingrad)....110.000 were taken prisoner, went deep into Russia. 4000-5000 returned...12 years after the war. I call that rather "bad"...man..
OneJazzKid 1 month ago
what are the songs used in the trailer?
PutrescentSoul 4 months ago
@DraGorian777 German POWs in Soviet camps were treated rather brutally - the manual labor combined with the harsh weather made survival very difficult. In contrast, German POWs held in American camps were said to "have the time of their lives" (they've even had reunions).
cattiechaos 5 months ago
Idont think that german prisoner of war were treated that bad that was why they never complain or start revolution or something.
DraGorian777 5 months ago
@Swordman85 And the Germans was not the only who raped without mercy...
You must se the trouth before you judge.
Movies are not the trouth only facts. Movies only 99% of the time make the enemy seems worse than they actually are.
There are allways more then one side...
Shaverea 6 months ago
@Swordman85 The dark throuth is that not only the Germans were pigs.
i am not saying that i support facism but thes movies only bring out the bad of the "enemies" side and what they did. You can´t deny that. + if you watch a documentary so can you se how they treated prisoners in both Germany, Russia and even USA. Not only the Germans were pigs and even facist (most of them was just fhighting for there country just like USA and Russia did) and German war prisoners taken by USA diden´t get food..
Shaverea 6 months ago
@STUser100
I was thinking about watching this movie, but after watching a scene where the nazi lays with the Russian woman... and SS prisoner! Damn, that's like watching a woman being fucked by a pig. Actually, even a pig would be less nasty, at least pigs offer food for people.
Swordman85 7 months ago
If somebody wants to watch a true, natural story about german prisoners, he should watch "Полумгла", but not this crap.
You can pick this up here rutracker. org/forum /viewtopic.p hp?t=192341 - russian and german languages.
STUser100 7 months ago
That's a real holy crap. Im russian ant I can say - there are no russians in film. In the hole story.
In the hole Russia there no even a one Russian, that depicted in this noncence. It's an British movie for British watchers about "GULAG STALIN VODKA BEARS SIBERIA BALALAYKA"
That's all totally a big lie.
STUser100 7 months ago