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‘Lesson Learned’ and ‘Under the Grey Sky’ Win at the 23rd BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival!
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Sleeping Car Murder, The

Compartiment tueurs · dir. Costa Gavras
France 1965, 95’

Gavras’ first important movie, Agata Christie's Murder on the Orient Express — like thriller. After a murder has been committed in a train to Paris, police open the inquiry. Subsequent passengers die in mysterious circumstances, and the investigation becomes more and more intricate.There is nothing in The sleeping Car, though, that could link the deaths… How will the investigation end?

Director:Costa Gavras
Screenplay:Costa Gavras
Music:Michel Magne
Cinematography:Jean Tournier
Editing:Christian Gaudin
Cast:Jacques Perrin, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul