Nord Express - in The Arts

In The Arts

  • Vladimir Nabokov describes in Chapter six of Speak, Memory how he traveled on the Nord Express from Saint Petersburg to France for a holiday in 1906.
  • Alfred Hitchcock's movie Strangers on a Train (1951), was translated to French as "L'inconnu du Nord-Express" (The unknown man in the Nord-Express).

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