''Hell Train'' (french: Train d'enfer) is a 1985 French
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Roger Hanin. It was entered into the
14th Moscow International Film Festival
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where it won a Special Prize.
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
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Roger Hanin as Commissaire Couturier
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Gérard Klein
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He is the editor of the prestigious science fiction series ''Ailleurs et Demain'' published by Robert Laffont and of the ...
as Salviat
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Christine Pascal
Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer and director.
Biography
Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's '' Les Guichets du Louvre'' (1974), and began an association w ...
as Isabelle
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Robin Renucci as Muller
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Fabrice Eberhard
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as Lacombe
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Xavier Maly
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* Xavier, Spain
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as Legoff
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Benoît Régent
Benoît Régent (19 August 1953 – 22 October 1994) was a French actor.
He was born in Nantes. He died at the age of 41 of a ruptured aneurysm in Zürich, Switzerland.
Partial filmography
*'' Femme intégrale'' (1980) - Jacques
*'' La ...
as Jouffroy
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Didier Sandre
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Selected filmography
References
External links
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1946 births
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20th-century French male actors
21st-century French ...
as Dalbret
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Henri Tisot
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as Guilabert
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Béatrice Camurat as Mme Salviat
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Karim Allaoui as Karim
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Sam Karmann
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* Sam, Benin
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* Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso
* Sam, Iran
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People and fictional ...
as Duval
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Pascale Pellegrin
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as Madeleine
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Nathalie Guérin as Mme Guilabert
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Alain Lahaye Alain may refer to:
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as Poli
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Vincent Solignac as Letellier
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Jacques Nolot as Lancry
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Anne Sinclair
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as herself
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Jacques Gamblin
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Alex Descas
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He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, app ...
References
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1985 films
1985 crime films
French crime films
1980s French-language films
1980s French films
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