Man on the Train poster
Director Patrice Leconte
Writer Claude Klotz

Man on the Train

Original Title: L'Homme du train

Tagline: A poet. A thief. Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.

Release Date: 2002-10-02

Duration: 90 minutes

Synopsis

A man, Milan 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. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

Casting

  • Jean-François Stévenin
    Luigi
  • Jean Rochefort
    Monsieur Manesquier
  • Johnny Hallyday
    Milan
  • Edith Scob
    Manesquier's Sister
  • Maurice Chevit
    Hairdresser
  • Pascal Parmentier
    Sadko
  • Isabelle Petit-Jacques
    Viviane, Manesquier's mistress
  • Riton Liebman
    Burly Guy
  • Véronique Kapoyan
    Baker
  • Charlie Nelson
    Max