Ciné Club - "Compartiment tueurs"
Join us at the Alliance for a Francophone movie night as we watch the 1965 crime thriller Compartiment tueurs, directed by Costa-Gavras and starring famous French singer and actor Yves Montand!
Based on the novel of the same name by popular crime novelist Sébastien Japrisot, this movie also serves as Costa-Gavros’s directoral debut.
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 (played by Yves Montand) 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.
Film will be shown in French with English subtitles. This film contains themes of violence and some themes of sexuality; recommended for ages 13 and up.
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Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras, born 12 February 1933, known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six of them were made in English.