Christian Petzold

Birthday: September 14, 1960 in Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Height: 188 cm

Christian Petzold was born in Hilden in 1960. After studying German and Drama at the Freie Universität Berlin, he enrolled in Berlin's German Academy for Film and Television (DFFB). There he stu ...Show More

[on Transit and transposing the setting from mid-20th-century to the present day] The transit space Show more [on Transit and transposing the setting from mid-20th-century to the present day] The transit space that is described by Anna Seghers in her book is a horizontal space, it is a geographical space, it is the space between Europe and the United States. They are in the port city, and thus the space between the land where we are and the sea we want to travel over. So this is the horizontal transit space. But I think that there is also a vertical kind of transit space, and that is time, and the stories that develop over time. And so we not just find ourselves between the United States and Europe, or between land and water, but we also find ourselves trapped in yesterday's time and today... we, in today's world, haven't really made any progress as compared to the past. So it's not people from the past that are ghosts-it is we that are so much more ghost-like. Hide

This is what cinema should be about: it should be about people in transit. Home is for television. This is what cinema should be about: it should be about people in transit. Home is for television.

If we want to move on, first we have to remember. If we want to move on, first we have to remember.

[on Nina Hoss] Nina is an incredible ensemble player. She can throw out everything superfluous, and Show more [on Nina Hoss] Nina is an incredible ensemble player. She can throw out everything superfluous, and that produces something fantastic. Hide

Christian Petzold's FILMOGRAPHY

as Creator (2)

Phoenix

Transit [Sub: Eng]