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Hell Train
1985 • 1h 30m • ★ 4.8 (8 votes) Released
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
Writer
Roger Hanin
Writer
Jean Curtelin
Rating
4.8
Runtime
90 min
Production
Canal+
Hachette Première
Fox-HachetteTop Billed Cast
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Keywords
skinheadimmigrationracismfrench colonialismfrench algerianracial discriminationmaghrebracist murder
