Hell Train (film)

Hell Train (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. 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.

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