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Compartiment tueurs
Directed byCosta-Gavras
Written bySébastien Japrisot (novel)
Costa Gavras
Produced byJulien Derode
StarringCatherine Allégret
Yves Montand
Simone Signoret
Michel Piccoli
CinematographyJean Tournier
Edited byChristian Gaudin
Music byMichel Magne
Release date
1965
Running time
95 min.
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$8.1 million[1]

The Sleeping Car Murders (French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts.[2] This film was the first movie for Costa-Gavras, to be followed later by other, more politically serious work.

Plot

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

Cast

References

  1. ^ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=12490
  2. ^ "The Sleeping Car Murder". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
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