Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestA six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.
Production
Meticulous period recreation of 1920s-30s train travel.
Direction
Three distinct auteurs, one cohesive haunting vision.
Writing
Interwar anxiety distilled into compartment-sized dramas.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just 34 years after WWII's end, the series represents France processing interwar trauma through nostalgia for a 'civilized' Europe that was already dying.
The real Orient Express ceased its original Paris-Istanbul route in 1977 — this series arrived as the actual train became myth.
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