The Train
The Train is a 1973 Franco–Italian film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. The film is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Georges Simenon.
Plot
In May 1940 a packed train takes refugees from a French village near the Belgian border fleeing advancing German forces. The passengers include Julien, a short-sighted radio repairer, his daughter and pregnant wife. The women are assigned to a carriage for women at the front while he has to scramble into a cattle truck at the rear. There he becomes entranced by a mysterious and beautiful young woman travelling alone.
Cast
- Adolf Hitler
- André Rouyer
- Anne Wiazemsky
- Carlo Nell
- Dany Jacquet
- François Valorbe
- Georges Hubert
- Georges Spanelly
- Henri Attal
- Jacques Alric
- Jacques Galland
- Jacques Maury
- Jacques Rispal
- Jean Lescot
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi
- Jean Turlier
- Lucienne Legrand
- Maurice Biraud
- Michel Dupleix
- Nike Arrighi
- Paul Amiot
- Paul Bonifas
- Paul Le Person
- Pierre Collet
- Regina
- Régine Zylberberg
- Roger Ibáñez
- Romy Schneider
- Serge Marquand
More details
| author | Pascal Jardin Pierre Granier-Deferre Sandro Continenza |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | France Fumay La Rochelle Moulins |
| director | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
| events | 1940 exode in France http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3592683 |
| genre | romance |
| keywords | capture flee french resistance german forces jewish woman police station pregnant wife resistance young woman |
| musicBy | Philippe Sarde |