Transport a film by Silvio Helbig will be showing on February 12th, 9pm and 13th, 4 and 8 pm

Somewhere in the future. A train driver of the powerful Transport Corporation is told by his controller to steer a course through the forbidden sector. When his train breaks down in a dilapidated tunnel of the forbidden sector the driver is bound to face a catastrophe.


The Characters

The driver Herold (Anatole Taubman), after having barely survived an accident, is on the verge of being evicted from the Transport Corporation. For months he has been training on his own and has been waiting in the hope of getting a new chance and to return back to his job. So far he has never doubted the Transport Corporation's authority...

Karl (Ole Puppe) is remarkably young for a controller. He is ambitious, intelligent and has been tremendously successful. It is obvious that he is looking forward to a fabulous career in the Transport Corporation. Already he is treating his elder colleague Walt with a haughty arrogance because he never really „made“ it. Karl in contrast is determined to even outflank his superior - soon! He reckons on almost everything to happen, and he never ever expects the system to fail ...


The Story

The story is set in a bleak future city. A permanent wind is blowing sand into every corner of the decaying city. It is ruled by the totalitarian Transport Corporation. The Transport Corporation keeps the underground tunnel system up and sends its huge trains across the city to transport any kind of goods.

Herold is currently living in a run-down apartment. He is waiting for a call. On one of these long days, the phone rings. There it is: his one and only chance to become an active member of the Transport Corporation again.

What he is not aware of, is the following: Karl has chosen Herold because he is facing a major problem for which he needs a driver, who will do anything to get his job back. A few grains of sand have fallen into the central computer causing a system failure, hence making one of Karl’s assignments absurd as there is not enough time to send a train from one end of the city to the other according to the ‘infallible’ computer. Karl is left with only one chance to save his career. In order to get the freight to the destination in time, he decides to break an essential rule of the Transport Corporation: He will redirect the train through the forbidden sector. That is why he has chosen Herold. Herold’s chance to get back into the job as well as Karl’s chance to continue on his path up into the Transport Cooperation’s hierarchy is to transport a secret cargo at a constant temperature of -15°C right through the forbidden sector.

Herold has no choice. He accepts the order. He certainly has no clue what is waiting for him, when suddenly his train breaks down in the forbidden sector. Herold is caught in the train as the temperature in the freight car rises. Controller and driver know there is only one way to get out of this alive. Herold takes matters into his own hands only to discover the inconceivable truth.