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This film, which won the Grand Prix International at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, is the story of the French railways during the German occupation. It shows how, often at the cost of their own lives, the railwaymen of France sabotaged the Nazis' vital transport and held up the movement of troops and supplies to the invasion front.

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Athos:
null Salina
Camargue:
null Daurand
Louis:
null Lozach
Station-Master at St-Andre:
null Pauleon
Maquis Chief:
null Desagneaux
Chief Engineer:
null Clarens
Lampin:
null Clarieux
German:
null Barnaul
German:
null Kronegger
[Themselves]:
The French railwaymen

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