The Sleeping Car Murders (French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French film directed by Costa Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name...

. It stars Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...

, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand

Yves Montand

-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...

, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:...

, Catherine Allégret

Catherine Allégret

Catherine Allégret is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret.In 2004, she published a book titled World Upside Down in which she contended that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather Yves Montand since the age of 5.In 2007, she portrayed Édith Piaf's...

, Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...

, Charles Denner

Charles Denner

Charles Denner was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most...

 and Pascale Roberts.

Plot

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 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.

Cast

• Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  -Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...
  
   Inspector Grazziani "Grazzi"
• Jacques Perrin
  Jacques Perrin
  Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...
  
   : Daniel
• Catherine Allégret
  Catherine Allégret
  Catherine Allégret is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret.In 2004, she published a book titled World Upside Down in which she contended that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather Yves Montand since the age of 5.In 2007, she portrayed Édith Piaf's...
  
   : Benjamine Bombat "Bambi"
• Pierre Mondy
  Pierre Mondy
  Pierre Mondy, whose real name was Pierre Cuq, born 10 February 1925 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor and director.He began his film career in 1949 and has appeared in over 140 films. In 1960, he received international revcognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz...
  
   : Superintendent Tarquin
• Claude Mann : Jean-Lou Gabert
• Jean-Louis Trintignant
  Jean-Louis Trintignant
  Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:...
  
   : Éric Grandin
• Simone Signoret
  Simone Signoret
  Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...
  
   : Éliane Darrès
• Charles Denner
  Charles Denner
  Charles Denner was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most...
  
   : Bob Vaski
• Michel Piccoli : René Cabourg
• Pascale Roberts : Georgette Thomas
• Jacques Dynam
  Jacques Dynam
  Jacques Dynam was a French film actor. He appeared in over 150 films between 1942 and 2004. He was born and died in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* My Wife Is Formidable...
  
   : Inspector Malec
• André Valmy
  André Valmy
  André Valmy is a French film actor. Hew was born André Antoine Marius Dugenet in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He appeared in 66 films between 1940 and 2001.-Selected filmography:* Une si jolie petite plage...
  
   : Inspector
• Philippe Rouleau : Inspector Antoine
• Maurice Chevit
  Maurice Chevit
  - Filmography:* Mr. Orchid * Les Hussards * The Sleeping Car Murders * Molière : The priest of the school* Le Coup de sirocco : General Bauvergne* Les Bronzés font du ski : Marius...
  
   : Inspector Moutard
• Nadine Alari : Mme Grazziani
• Monique Chaumette : Mme Rivolani
• Paul Pavel : Rivolani
• Bernadette Lafont
  Bernadette Lafont
  Bernadette Lafont is a French actress and the mother of Pauline Lafont .Bernadette Lafont won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for L'Effrontée...
  
   : Georgette's sister
• Christian Marin
  Christian Marin
  Christian Marin , a French film actor, he is known for his role in Le gendarme series . He did not play in last two sequels...
  
   : Georgette's brother-in-law
• Serge Rousseau
  Serge Rousseau
  Serge Rousseau was a French film and television actor and agent. He was a close friend of François Truffaut. He played the husband of murdered Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black and the unknown man who declares his love for Claude Jade at the end of Stolen Kisses...
  
    : The train controller
• Jenny Orléans
  Jenny Orléans
  - Filmography :* 1953 : Les Enfants de l'amour by Léonide Moguy* 1957 : Moi et le Colonel by Peter Glenville* 1957 : Pot-Bouille by Julien Duvivier* 1958 : Der eiserne Gustav by George Hurdalek...
  
   : Cabourg's sister.
• Claude Dauphin
  Claude Dauphin (actor)
  Claude Dauphin was a French actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978.He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole.Dauphin married...
  
   : Eliane;'s brother
• Daniel Gélin
  Daniel Gélin
  Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French actor, occasional director and screenwriter.-Early life:Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. When he was 10 his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that...
  
   : the veterinarian
• Tanya Lopert : Mme Garaudy
• Charles Millot : Le medical examiner
• Albert Michel : the bartender
• José Artur : the journalist
• William Sabatier : Superintendent Tuffi
• Josée Steiner : An employee at hôtel Arizona
• André Weber : A drunk man at the police headquarters
• Edmond Ardisson : The telephone voice from Marseilles
• Jacqueline Staup : Bambi's boss
• Dominique Zardi
  Dominique Zardi
  Dominique Zardi was a French actor. He played in more than 600 films-Selected filmography:- External links :* *...
  
   : Inspector in the café
• Maurice Auzel : Inspector in the café
• Marcel Bozzuffi
  Marcel Bozzuffi
  Marcel Bozzuffi was a French film actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as a brutal hitman in the Oscar-winning US film The French Connection...
  
   : A policeman
• Georges Geret
  Georges Géret
  Georges Géret was a French film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1954 and 1992. He was born in Lyon, France.-Selected filmography:* Diary of a Chambermaid * L'Insoumis...
  
   : A policeman
• Dominique Bernard : A train employee
• Lionel Vitrant : An inspector
• Nicole Desailly: Janitor in Eliane's building.
• Jean Droze : a man in the Police headquarters
• Claude Berri
  Claude Berri
  Claude Berri , born Claude Berel Langmann, was one of the great all-rounders of French cinema: an actor, writer, producer, director and distributor. "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct. Then my relative failure as a director forced me to become a producer. In order to get my...
  
   : A train employee
• Françoise Arnoul
  Françoise Arnoul
  Françoise Arnoul is a French actress, who achieved popularity with her cute and sexy charm, especially during the 1950s.Born Françoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch in Constantine, France , as the daughter of stage actress Janine Henry and artillery general Charles Gautsch, she has two brothers...
  
   :A nurse in the veterinarian school
• Serge Marquand
  Serge Marquand
  Serge Marquand was a French actor and film producer of advanced leukemia.He was the brother of Nadine Trintignant and Christian Marquand.- Filmography :* 1959 : Les Liaisons dangereuses by Roger Vadim : un skieur...
  
   : Georgette's lover
• Denise Péron : A drunk lady
• Jean-Pierre Périer
• Bernard Paul
• Lucien Desagneaux

External links

• The opening and closing sequence on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHxMfHcP79s&feature=related