Transit (TV 2005)

Tatjana dreams of escaping St Petersburg, and thinks she's found a man that can take her away. Meanwhile in Mexico City, Champinon struggles to find himself a girlfriend. In Los Angeles, ... See full summary »

Director:

Niall MacCormick

Writers:

Niall MacCormick, Murilo Pasta

Stars:

Anna Slynko, Humberto Busto, Shelley Conn

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anna Slynko	...	Tatjana
Humberto Busto	...	Champinon
Shelley Conn	...	Asha
Victor Gatonye	...	Matthew
Yaroslav Ivanov	...	Yuri
Polina Bakharevskaya	...	Masha (as Polina Bakharevskaja)
Mido Hamada	...	Ruben
Sergei Koshonin	...	Leonid
Maria Lobacheva	...	Tatjana's Stepmother
Cesar Beas	...	Blanco
Ari Brickman	...	Hector
Siouzana Lusovskaya	...	Natalia
Cynthia Hernández	...	Isabella
Paola Medina	...	Marina
Francisco Magaña	...	Champinon's Father

Storyline

Tatjana dreams of escaping St Petersburg, and thinks she's found a man that can take her away. Meanwhile in Mexico City, Champinon struggles to find himself a girlfriend. In Los Angeles, Asha discovers her fiancé has been cheating on her, and in Kenya, Matthew struggles to break into Nairobi's burgeoning hip hop culture. The cast of characters react to the building pressure to create TRANSIT: Tatjana leaves Russia for Mexico City in search of her lover, and Asha for Nairobi to shoot a film for her graduation project. In their new locations our characters meet and our four stories become two when Tatjana finds Champinon and Asha finds Matthew. Love follows but their relationships are not as simple as they first appear, as we discover that all their stories are interlinked.

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Plot Keywords:

mexico city | mexico | russia | kenya | human immunodeficiency virus | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

Russian Spanish Swahili English

Release Date:

1 December 2005 (UK)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blue Sky Films, MTV Europe, Tigerlily Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Repella"
Written by Srdjan Kurpjel, S. Wellington, Danny Ramirez Jova
Performed by Kid Africa and Snow Girl

User Reviews

Transit

„Transit" deals with Aids, a still cureless low immunity disease, but an audience that doesn't know this beforehand, won't discover this fact until the very last ten minutes. This is a very effective dramaturgic dodge, because it is also the way that Aids spreads. You might not notice it, you might be careless, but you still can be infected. At least in the rich countries, many people get infected because they think it won't happen to them anyway. I think, it was also a good decision from director Niall MacCormick and his co-writer Murilo Pasta not to focus on the so-called high risk groups like gays or drug users, because the important message is that everybody can get infected. And that is also what "Transit" is eventually, a message movie. From an artistic point of view I would say not everything is felicitous. Some of the story lines are just totally implausible and also the acting isn't top-notch. And sadly, too many filmmakers fall for the trick thinking, that this "Babel"-like structure adds any meaning to their work.