Hell Train
MovieTitle | Train d'Enfer |
User score | 5.4 |
Release date | Jan 9, 1985 |
Genre | Crime, Drama |
Director | Roger Hanin |
Production country | France |
Production companies | Canal+, Hachette Première, Fox-Hachette |
Run time | 90 min. |
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...