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Death Defying Acts(Movie, 2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
Death Defying ActsRating: 3.0/5 (with 113113 votes)
Death Defying Acts is a British-Australian 2007 supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s. It was screened in a special presentation at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Death Defying Acts

AACTA Award for Best Production Design AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role AACTA Award for Best Cinematography AACTA Award for Best Costume Design AACTA Award for Best Production Design

About Death Defying Acts

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

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Additional Information

Shot in: Edinburgh
Plays in: Edinburgh
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT)
Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/09/2008 (World premiere: 09/13/2007)
Appearing Characters: Harry Houdini
Screenwriter: Tony Grisoni
Director of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Houdini's Death Defying Acts"
"El último gran mago"
"Death Defying Acts - Tödliche Magie"
"Tödliche Magie - Death Defying Acts"
"El último gran mago"
"Au-delà de l'illusion"
"Houdini, a halál mágusa"
"Death Defying Acts: Houdini's Secret"
Budget: 20,000,000 USD
Revenue: 8,380,329 USD (= 42%)

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