L'homme du train
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| L'homme du train | |
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 L'homme du train DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Patrice Leconte |
| Produced by | Philippe Carcassonne |
| Written by | Claude Klotz |
| Starring | Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday |
| Distributed by | Paramount Classics (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 2 September 2002 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Language | French |
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L'homme du train (The Man on the Train) is a 2002 French comic-drama film, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday.
The movie was shot in Annonay, France and won the audience awards at the Venice Film Festival for "Best Film" and "Best Actor" (Jean Rochefort) in 2002.
This was the first foreign language film in which the British Film Council invested £500,000 (€750,000). The total budget of the film was €5,000,000.
[edit] Plot
In a deserted train station, a gangster, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday), meets a provincial teacher, M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort), on the verge of retirement. Their meeting in an almost dead city changes their lives. Each realises he might have been better suited to the other man's way of life.
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