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The Sleeping Car Murder

Original title: Compartiment tueurs
  • 19651965
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.8K
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Compartiment tueurs (1965)
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Mystery
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.8K
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  • Director
    • Costa-Gavras
  • Writers
    • Sébastien Japrisot(novel)
    • Costa-Gavras(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Catherine Allégret
    • Jacques Perrin
    • Simone Signoret
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  • Director
    • Costa-Gavras
  • Writers
    • Sébastien Japrisot(novel)
    • Costa-Gavras(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Catherine Allégret
    • Jacques Perrin
    • Simone Signoret
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    • 15User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 3 nominations

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    Pierre Mondy and Yves Montand in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Jacques Perrin in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Claude Mann and Yves Montand in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Yves Montand in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Pascale Roberts in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Pierre Mondy and Yves Montand in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Claude Mann, Yves Montand, and Simone Signoret in Compartiment tueurs (1965)
    Costa-Gavras and Yves Montand in Compartiment tueurs (1965)

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    Catherine Allégret
    Catherine Allégret
    • Benjamine Bombat dite Bambias Benjamine Bombat dite Bambi
    Jacques Perrin
    Jacques Perrin
    • Daniel - le jeune voyageuras Daniel - le jeune voyageur
    Simone Signoret
    Simone Signoret
    • Eliane Darrès - une comédienne - 4e victimeas Eliane Darrès - une comédienne - 4e victime
    Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli
    • René Cabourg - un représentant - 2e victimeas René Cabourg - un représentant - 2e victime
    Pascale Roberts
    Pascale Roberts
    • Georgette Thomas - la première victimeas Georgette Thomas - la première victime
    Yves Montand
    Yves Montand
    • L'inspecteur Graziani dit Grazzias L'inspecteur Graziani dit Grazzi
    Pierre Mondy
    Pierre Mondy
    • Le commissaire Tarquinas Le commissaire Tarquin
    Claude Mann
    Claude Mann
    • L'inspecteur Jean-Lou Gabertas L'inspecteur Jean-Lou Gabert
    Charles Denner
    Charles Denner
    • Bob Vaski - l'amant de Georgetteas Bob Vaski - l'amant de Georgette
    Jean-Louis Trintignant
    Jean-Louis Trintignant
    • Éric Grandin - un amant d'Elianeas Éric Grandin - un amant d'Eliane
    Nadine Alari
    Nadine Alari
    • Madame Grazianias Madame Graziani
    Monique Chaumette
    Monique Chaumette
    • Madame Rivolanias Madame Rivolani
    Maurice Chevit
    • Un inspecteuras Un inspecteur
    Jacques Dynam
    Jacques Dynam
    • Un inspecteuras Un inspecteur
    Bernadette Lafont
    Bernadette Lafont
    • La soeur de Georgetteas La soeur de Georgette
    Tanya Lopert
    Tanya Lopert
    • Mme Garaudyas Mme Garaudy
    Christian Marin
    Christian Marin
    • Le beau-frèreas Le beau-frère
    Jenny Orléans
    • La soeur de René Cabourgas La soeur de René Cabourg
    • Director
      • Costa-Gavras
    • Writers
      • Sébastien Japrisot(novel)
      • Costa-Gavras(adaptation)
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    Storyline

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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. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims. —mnfowler
    • neo noir
    • police
    • aging actress
    • mystery killer
    • literature on screen
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    • Taglines
      • Sometimes Fear Comes as a Friend...Sometimes as an Enemy...But to the People in the Sleeping Car Fear Came as a Stranger...Unknown...Unexpected...Unstoppable!
    • Genres
      • Crime
      • Drama
      • Mystery
      • Thriller
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Was restored by Lumières Numériques for image L.E. Diapason for sound and digitized by KG Productions in 2016 from the original magnetic band and 35mm negatives, under the supervision of director Costa-Gavras.
    • Connections
      Featured in Mémoires pour Simone (1986)

    User reviews15

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    Top review
    9/10
    Something old, something new!
    There have been a handful of directors, notably Clouzot, Delannoy, Kurosawa and Claude Miller who have taken the 'police procedural' to new heights and transcended the genre. To this select group can be added Costa-Gavras for his astonishingly assured directorial debut 'Compartiment Tuers'.

    This technically virtuosic and gloriously inventive piece is impressive enough by any standards but Costa-Gavras has here taken the giant leap from assistant to fully-fledged director with consummate ease.

    He has the good fortune of course to have the services of simply superlative talent both in front of and behind the camera and great material with which to work, based as it is on the novel by Sébastian Japrisot who is renowned for 'subverting the rules of the crime genre'.

    This film is a heady mix of policier, film noir and mystery thriller with a sprinkling of black humour and succeeds as both homage to and spoof of those genres.

    The cast comprises some of France's finest and one has to mention Yves Montand who shows a new maturity here with his greatest roles still to come, not only for this director but also for Claude Sautet.

    A first film can be make-or-break and here Costa-Gavras is setting out his stall and declaring "Here I am!" Luckily for us, here he stayed.
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    • Jun 29, 2021

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 17, 1965 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • website
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Kupe za ubice
    • Filming locations
      • Rue des Chantres, Paris 4, Paris, France
    • Production company
      • PECF
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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