Snowpiercer [DVD] / CJ Entertainment presents in association with Union Investment Partners ; a Moho Film & Opus Pictures production ; a film by Bong Joon Ho.
Originally produced in France as a motion picture and released in 2013. Extras: "La fin d'un monde" animated introduction; Interview with Chris Evans. Based on a French graphic novel, "Le transperceneige" by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette. Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, John Hurt, Ed Harris.
Summary:
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive rich and powerful ride.
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