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Also known as Train d'enfer

1985 film by Roger Hanin

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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...

Released: 1985-01-0990 minDir: Roger HaninCrime, Drama
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Cast

  • Roger Hanin as Commissaire Couturier
  • Hammou Graïa as Habib Grimzi
  • Christine Pascal as Isabelle
  • Karim Allaoui as Karim
  • Gérard Klein as Salviat
  • Rabah Loucif as Farid

Themes

  • skinhead
  • immigration
  • racism
  • french colonialism
  • french algerian
  • racial discrimination
  • maghreb
  • racist murder

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IMDb

5/10

123 votes

Year
1985
Runtime
90 min
Genres
Crime, Drama

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publication date
1985-01-01
title
Train d'enfer
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