Inspired by true events, Lost Transport is a deeply human story about cohesion and friendship set in the last days of WWII.
April, 1945. A train of 2,500 Jewish prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is left abandoned by its German captors fleeing from advancing Russian troops. The local German village is quickly turned into a refugee camp and hospital for the train’s passengers.
In the hunt for food, headstrong Simone (played by Hanna van Vliet) and her husband Isaac confront the head of the Red Army, Vera (Eugénie Anselin). Told to head to the village, they take up residence in the childhood home of villager Winnie (Anna Bachmann) much to her angst.
What ensues is how these women thrust together, respond to what they are dealt as they each suffer their own injustices and torment. The pacing of the ensemble is superb. Character motivations are not underlined by irrelevant exposition, and what you might think is well-trodden material is nothing of the sort.
Lost Transport makes its Australian premiere at the 2023 German Film Festival on now. Check your local guides for screening times.
About Lost Transport
Language: German and Dutch with English subtitles
Length: 98 mins
Directed by Saskia Diesing
Stars Hanna van Vliet, Eugénie Anselin, Anna Bachmann, Bram Suijker, Konstantin Frolov
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