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Hell Train (1985)

Hell Train (1985)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1985, January 9
Directors: Roger Hanin
Countries: France
Production: Canal+, Hachette Première, Hachette Première, Fox-Hachette, Fox-Hachette
Cast: Robin Renucci, Xavier Maly, Vincent Solignac, Roger Hanin, Benoît Régent, Jean-Claude de Goros, Didier Sandre, Hammou Graïa, Sam Karmann, Rabah Loucif, Jacques Nolot, Béatrice Camurat

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...

Keywords:

racism racial discrimination immigration skinhead french colonialism french algerian maghreb racist murder