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5.2Hell 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...
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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- publication date
- 1985-01-01
- title
- Train d'enfer
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