Hell Train (film)

Hell Train (French: Train d'enfer) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Roger Hanin. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.^[2] inspired by a real story. Habib Grimzi case is a criminal case in which, on November 14, 1983, Habib Grimzi was murdered by being thrown out of the window of the Bordeaux-Vintimille train by three candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion, for racist motives.

Hell Train
Film poster
Directed by	Roger Hanin
Written by	Jean Curtelin Roger Hanin
Produced by	Christine Gouze-Rénal
Starring	Roger Hanin
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Edited by	Youcef Tobni
Music by	Michel Legrand
Release date	9 January 1985 (1985-01-09)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$7.7 million[1]

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

• Roger Hanin as Commissaire Couturier
• Gérard Klein as Salviat
• Christine Pascal as Isabelle
• Robin Renucci as Muller
• Fabrice Eberhard as Lacombe
• Xavier Maly as Legoff
• Benoît Régent as Jouffroy
• Didier Sandre as Dalbret
• Henri Tisot as Guilabert
• Béatrice Camurat as Mme Salviat
• Karim Allaoui as Karim
• Sam Karmann as Duval
• Pascale Pellegrin as Madeleine
• Nathalie Guérin as Mme Guilabert
• Alain Lahaye as Poli
• Vincent Solignac as Letellier
• Jacques Nolot as Lancry
• Anne Sinclair as herself
• Jacques Gamblin
• Alex Descas