The need of man and woman for each other overcomes hate

I watched TRANZIT on dvd years ago generally liked it.

I felt really touched by growing affection between Russian POW camp commander, Natalia (Vera Farmiga), and the decent, non-Nazi, German officer POW. It helped that guy was good-looking and in the prime of masculinity as well.

Despite the hatred of the recently concluded World War II, you begin to slowly see the natural attraction and need between man and woman slowly start to insinuate itself between the German POWs and the female Russian guards, something that even the hostility and hate of the ended war cannot stamp out. Only those few German and Russians in the camp, too horribly emotionally and psychologically scarred by the war, are able to maintain their distance; those are not normal people, at least not normal in the healthy emotional sense.

Natalia still loves her invalided husband, but it's not the same. He has become more of a pitiful patient to her than a loving, virile man which she still needs. This need is met by the German officer and they consummate their passion one night. Disregard the anachronism of Vera Farmiga's shaven armpits, which would have been bushy in 1945 eastern Russia. But I was glad her armpits were shaven so I would not be grossed out.

The love and the passion and cravings of the flesh between man and woman will triumph over all.