LOST Transport: Festival premiere at the Film Festival Cologne
On October 21st at 9 pm, Saskia Diesing's unconventional drama "Lost Transport" will celebrate its festival premiere at Film Festival Cologne! Following the screening there will be a Q&A with members of cast and crew. The German-Dutch co-production will run in both the NRW competition and the "Benelux Meets Nrw" section and will be screened twice at FFCGN. The film will then be released in German cinemas in spring 2023.
Festival dates
- Oktober 21st, 21h, Filmpalast Köln
- Oktober 23rd, 16:30h, Filmpalast Köln
About the film: Spring 1945: Shortly before the end of the war, a deportation train bound for Theresienstadt with over 2,000 Jewish concentration camp prisoners is stranded in the middle of a pasture. The train driver uncouples the engine and flees with the other German soldiers from the Red Army, which has already occupied the nearby German village of Tröbitz. The people on the train are left to fend for themselves and rely on help from the village. When there is also an outbreak of typhus, Tröbitz is quarantined by the Russian occupation to contain it - no one in, no one out. In this tense situation of deep mistrust, despair and desire for revenge, an unexpected friendship grows between the German girl Winnie (Anna Bachmann), the Dutch Jew Simone (Hanna van Vliet) and the Russian sniper Vera (Eugénie Anselin).