Catherine Allégret
Benjamine Bombat dite Bambi
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Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one.
- (2.2K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Costa-Gavras
- 1965-11-17
The Sleeping Car Murders (also known as The Sleeping Car Murder, French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts.
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one.
- 180 min
A fast-paced, Paris-set, mid-sixties murder mystery, stunningly shot in black & white using some flashy editing and filming techniques. A woman is murdered in a sleeping compartment of a train after its arrival in Paris from Avignon.
- (1.5K)
- Costa-Gavras
Train passengers are killed off one by one following the discovery of a woman's body in one of the cars.
- (2)
- Costa-Gavras
- Mystery & Thriller
- Yves Montand
Straightforward detective thriller (adapted from a whodunit by Sébastien Japrisot), made by Costa-Gavras - his first film - before he climbed on his political bandwagon.
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The murder of a young woman in a sleeping car leads to interviews with suspects and possible witnesses, and more murders occur along the way. Yves Montand heads up the investigation, and certainly has his hands full.
