Le Train - Just a touch of luck

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Movie
German title Le Train - Just a touch of luck
Original title Le Train
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1973
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Pierre Granier-Deferre
script Pierre Granier-Deferre,
Pascal Jardin
production Raymond Danon
music Philippe Sarde
camera Walter Wottitz
cut Jean Ravel
occupation

Le Train is a French feature film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre in 1973 and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Romy Schneider based on a novel by Georges Simenon .

action

Shortly after the German invasion of France in 1940, the inhabitants of a small French town near the Belgian border were evacuated. For this purpose, a train is put together that carries passenger and freight cars . The radio mechanic Julien Maroyeur, who has been postponed from military service, and his family want to take this opportunity. His pregnant wife and child are allowed to travel in a first class compartment , but Julien has to make do with a place in a freight car at the end of the train.

A colorful group of people gathers in this car , including a deserter , a veteran of the First World War, a young mother and the incognito German Jew Anna Kupfer. The journey of the train to the west is delayed and endangered several times due to the extraordinary circumstances. After a longer stop, the train is separated and Julien travels independently of his family. So he takes care of the mysterious Anna, defends her against aggressive fellow travelers and finally gets closer to her.

During the journey to La Rochelle , the travelers had to fight their way over a mined bridge and the train was shot at by a low- flying aircraft and was almost bombed . At the same time, Julien learns about Anna's life in Germany , her escape from the anti-Semitic riots of the Nazis and her internment in Belgium as a German. In La Rochelle he takes her through the control of the authorities and passes her off as his wife so that she is spared a refugee camp . But there he also finds his wife, who has given birth to him, and Anna disappears without a trace. In the meantime, however, the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht is well advanced and the situation is normalizing again within the framework of the circumstances.

Four years later, Julien - he lives a more or less normal life with his family - is questioned by the Gestapo because Anna was picked up. She still carried the fake La Rochelle papers she passed off as his wife. When the interrogating policeman finally confronts the two, Julien can no longer deny his acquaintance with Anna.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "psychologically sensitive staged private fate against the background of refugee misery and the destruction of the war." Furthermore, the production was "humanly touching, excellently played."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for Le Train - Just a Touch of Luck . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 46 915 V).
  2. ↑ Le Train - Just a Touch of Luck in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used