The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
- Original title
- Compartiment tueurs
- Directed by
- Costa-Gavras
- Genre
- drama film, neo-noir
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 100 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman is found murdered on a night train from Marseille to Paris. The police interrogate the other passengers to find who among them is the killer.
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What happens
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. The film was the directorial debut of Costa-Gavras, to be followed later by other, more politically-oriented work. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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