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Hell Train

Hell Train

1985

XO5.2
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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...

TMDB5.2(9)XO5.2

Director: Roger Hanin

Cast: Roger Hanin, Hammou Graïa, Christine Pascal, Karim Allaoui, Gérard Klein, Rabah Loucif, Sam Karmann, Robin Renucci

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