''One Night... A Train'' () is a 1968 Belgian-French drama film directed by

André Delvaux André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan ...

, starring

Yves Montand Ivo Livi (), better known as Yves Montand (; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer. Early life Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer, Ivo held strong ...

and

Anouk Aimée Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus (born 27 April 1932), known professionally as Anouk Aimée () or Anouk, is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years, she studi ...

. It tells the story of Mathias, a professor of linguistics at a university where the students have lively discussions about Flemish nationalism and morality. During a train ride, the French-speaking woman who Mathias lives with disappears and he goes looking for her in an unknown city. The film is based on the novel ''De trein der traagheid'' by Johan Daisne.

Cast

as Mathias *

as Anne * Adriana Bogdan as Moira * Hector Camerlynck as Hernhutter * François Beukelaers as Val *

Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was a British character actor who made more than 150 film and television appearances. He is known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958, with his first role as Sir Arthu ...

as Jeremiah *

Senne Rouffaer Félicien P. I. (Senne) Rouffaer (19 December 1925 – 14 July 2006) was a Flemish actor and film director. One of his most successful films as a lead actor was ''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short''. On television, he was chiefly known for his ...

as Elckerlyc * Domien De Gruyter as Werner * Jan Peré as Henrik

Reception

Aurélien Ferenczi of ''

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'' wrote in 2009: "The cleverness of the film is how it finds unusual visual equivalents to classic themes of 60s

auteur cinema An auteur (; , 'author') is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded but personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, which thus manifests the director's unique ...

—-at the heart, we are very close to

Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...

. Yves Montand and Anouk Aimée are terrific, and ''One Night... A Train'' is perhaps, quite simply, its director's best film."

Box office

According to Fox records the film required $1,650,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $525,000 so made a loss to the studio.

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* 1968 drama films 1968 films Belgian drama films 1960s Dutch-language films Films based on Belgian novels Films directed by André Delvaux Films scored by Frédéric Devreese French drama films 1960s French-language films 1960s multilingual films Belgian multilingual films French multilingual films 1960s French films {{1960s-drama-film-stub