My mate found this SNCF documentary on the making of this famous film so it's time to brush up on your French......
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32C7g
making the film 'The Train'
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making the film 'The Train'
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Re: making the film 'The Train'
hq1hitchin wrote:My mate found this SNCF documentary on the making of this famous film so it's time to brush up on your French......
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32C7g
I enjoyed watching this film when it was first shown so I read up about it. Apparently, old French railwaymen recounted to the film makers the tricks they got up to in order to delay trains and annoy the Germans. A similar story was told me by a former POW whom the Germans had put to work on a narow-gauge line which formed the only public transport in a German city which was being bombed every night. The Germans, having no sense of humour, would go berserk at these incidents, but the POWs, being former railwaymen, were able to make them look like accidents to those who weren't.
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