Hell Train (film)
1985 film
- 9 January 1985 (1985-01-09)
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Hell Train (French: Train d'enfer) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Roger Hanin. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.[2] inspired by a real story. Habib Grimzi case is a criminal case in which, on November 14, 1983, Habib Grimzi was murdered by being thrown out of the window of the Bordeaux-Vintimille train by three candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion, for racist motives.
Plot
Three men are arrested at a local dance for disorderly conduct. After being released the men locate a young Arab and throw him from the window of a moving train. Isabelle witnesses their crime and informs the police. The crime and following police investigation causes racial tension throughout the town and soon a race riot threatens to erupt.
Cast
- Roger Hanin as Commissaire Couturier
- Gérard Klein as Salviat
- Christine Pascal as Isabelle
- Robin Renucci as Muller
- Fabrice Eberhard as Lacombe
- Xavier Maly as Legoff
- Benoît Régent as Jouffroy
- Didier Sandre as Dalbret
- Henri Tisot as Guilabert
- Béatrice Camurat as Mme Salviat
- Karim Allaoui as Karim
- Sam Karmann as Duval
- Pascale Pellegrin as Madeleine
- Nathalie Guérin as Mme Guilabert
- Alain Lahaye as Poli
- Vincent Solignac as Letellier
- Jacques Nolot as Lancry
- Anne Sinclair as herself
- Jacques Gamblin
- Alex Descas
References
External links
- Hell Train at IMDb
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