Man on the Train

Man on the Train

90 mins | Drama, Crime | Sept. 2, 2002

A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

Man on the Train

90 mins | Drama, Crime | Sept. 2, 2002

Man on the Train
A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Canal+, Film Council, Pandora Filmproduktion, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Eurimages, Zoulou Films, Natexis Banques Populaires Images 2, Sofica Sofinergie 5, Ciné B, Tubedale Films, FCC, Cinéma Parisien, Media Suits, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Original title L'Homme du train
Directors Patrice Leconte
Writers Claude Klotz

Cast

Jean Rochefort

as Monsieur Manesquier

Johnny Hallyday

as Milan

Edith Scob

as Manesquier's Sister

Maurice Chevit

as Hairdresser

Riton Liebman

as Le costaud

Olivier Fauron

as Le collégien

Véronique Kapoyan

as La boulangère