set in 1945 and skenbart follow a failed swedish book editor who decide to take a non stop train to berlin . unfortunately for everyone around him and he a walking disaster and cause mayhem everywhere he go . the train also hold a man and his mistress scheme to murder the man wife ( who also on the train ) and a soldier on his way home and two gay elderly gentleman and an angry train conductor and two nun and a bunch of refugee and and even more people . mean a a mix of noir ish thriller ( which it do quite well at least to begin with ) and and comedy and the film fail with both . it doesn not sit right a the film change tone with every new scene . and a the train race towards it final destination and the film turn more and more bizarre and end on a truly surreal note . the good bit be waste in a myriad of pointless plot and character . skenbart be pack with famous swedish actor and no matter how small the part be . it feel like the filmmaker ring everyone they have ever work with and offer them a part in the film . too bad that the performance be just as bad a the script ( act your line do not read them . ) . the comedy be more or less slapstick and with the same joke repeat over and over . the pace be incredibly slow at time ( quite often and actually ) with on scene in particular dragging on for about ten minute for no good reason . the screenwriter also seem to think that swearing be a good way to replace decent dialogue . the film look great though and in moody b and w and but it waste on such inept film making in every other department . [ negative ] .