Hell Train (1985)
January 9, 1985
Crime, Drama
1h 30m


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...
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Roger Hanin
- Commissaire Couturier Roger Hanin
- Habib Grimzi Hammou Graïa
- Isabelle Christine Pascal
- Karim Karim Allaoui
- Salviat Gérard Klein
- Farid Rabah Loucif
- Duval Sam Karmann
- Muller Robin Renucci
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Keywords
- skinhead
- immigration
- racism
- french colonialism
- french algerian
- racial discrimination
- maghreb
- racist murder