Released:
1985-01-09

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...

Director:
Roger Hanin

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
Crime, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Roger Hanin
  as
  Commissaire Couturier
• 
  Hammou Graïa
  as
  Habib Grimzi
• 
  Christine Pascal
  as
  Isabelle
• 
  Karim Allaoui
  as
  Karim
• 
  Gérard Klein
  as
  Salviat