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Murder in a Parlor Car Compartment

1997 1 hour 35 minutes
71/100

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Three passengers are traveling in the luxuriously appointed saloon car of an international express train: the famous Czech police inspector Trachta, the industrialist Meyer, who manufactures everything needed to keep warm (fur coats, rum, fireclay bricks), and the factory owner Bierhanzel, a manufacturer of hair-thickening ointment. At the Istanbul station, the trio is joined by the inspector’s protégé, police trainee Jindřich Hlaváček, who is finishing his thesis on train crime. The journey proceeds smoothly until factory owner Bierhanzel is struck by a toothache...

Released

1st January 1997

29 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 35 minutes

Finishes at 12:21am

Ratings and awards

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    8/10

  • TMDb Logo

    68%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    71%

Directed by

Ladislav Smoljak

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Written by

Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak

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