Hell Train (1985)
09/01/1985
Crime, Drama
1h 30m
- 54% (6 votes)
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Overview
Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-Ventimiglia train, the three men who were candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion beat Habib Grimzi, a 26-year-old Algerian, before throwing him out of a window. A young woman, who witnessed the murder, alerted the police. The investigation begins in a climate of extreme tension. In the city, provocations and attacks are increasing...
- Roger HaninDirector, Writer
- Jean CurtelinWriter
Original Title
Train d'Enfer
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Keywords
- skinhead
- immigration
- racism
- french colonialism
- french algerian
- racial discrimination
- maghreb
- racist murder
Top Billed Cast
Roger Hanin
Commissaire Couturier
Hammou Graïa
Habib Grimzi
Christine Pascal
Isabelle
Karim Allaoui
Karim
Gérard Klein
Salviat
Rabah Loucif
Farid
Sam Karmann
Duval
Robin Renucci
Muller
Jean-Claude de Goros
Agent grade
Xavier Maly
Legoff
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