COMPARTIMENT TUEURS
by COSTA-GAVRAS
Written by Costa-Gavras, Milan Kundera, Christopher Frank / From the novel by Sébastien Japrisot / Photography Jean Tournier / Editing Christian Gaudin / Starring Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Michel Piccoli / Produced by Julien Derode
France 1965 / 91′
V.O. sub. ITA
restored version
15.11.2021
20:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro Lifetime Achievement
FREE
A woman is found dead in one of the sleeping cars of the train connecting Marseille to Paris. It is the first of a series of murders, all perpetrated by the same killer.
For his first film, Costa-Gavras chooses a detective story rich in suspense. However, he goes beyond the genre canons by employing innovative visual solutions and makes the most of Hitchcock’s lesson while skilfully building up the suspense.
DIRECTOR
Costa-Gavras, born in 1933 in Greece in the province of Iraia, he began his career directing detective films and then devoted himself almost permanently to the crime story. He went into exile due to the dramatic socio-political situation in his country and received French citizenship in 1965. Here he shot The Sleeping Car Murders starring Yves Montand who would become his ‘muse’ and star of many of the films he shot in Europe. In 1969 he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Z for which he took inspiration from the assassination of Lambrakis. In 1982, he won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Missing, a portrait of Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1989, he triumphed also in Berlin where Music Box won the Golden Bear. Adults in the Room is his first feature film shot in Greek. Adults in the Room is his first feature film shot in Greek.
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