Hell Train (film)

Hell Train
Film poster
Directed by	Roger Hanin
Written by	Jean Curtelin Roger Hanin
Produced by	Christine Gouze-Rénal
Starring	Roger Hanin
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Edited by	Youcef Tobni
Music by	Michel Legrand
Release date	9 January 1985 (1985-01-09)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$7.7 million[1]

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

1. JP. "Train d'enfer (1985)- JPBox-Office". Retrieved 28 September 2016.
2. "14th Moscow International Film Festival (1985)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.

External links

• Hell Train at IMDb