Le Train

May 1940 - Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. Also in France, Julien (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a radio repairman, boards a train with his wife and child to flee away from German army. As the men are placed in cattle cars with only the women and elderly allowed in the passenger cars, events begin their fateful turning. insignificant repairman meets Anna (Romy Schneider), a young attractive and wealthy Jewish German. They falls in love, but they have to be separate. Three years later, the Gestapo draws them together again. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)