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Death Watch(Movie, 1980)

Original title: "La Mort en direct" (French/FR)
R
| 2h 11min | Genres: Drama, Science Fiction
Death WatchRating: 3.2/5 (with 4141 votes)
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton. The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. The film had 1,013,842 admissions in France and was the 35th most attended film of the year. ()
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About Death Watch

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

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Death Watch ≣ 1980 ≣ Trailer(Trailer, 1:54)

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Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, France
Shot in: Glasgow
Based on: "The Unsleeping Eye" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/01/1982 (World premiere: 01/23/1980)
Film Editor: Armand Psenny
Director of Photography: Pierre-William Glenn
Composer: Antoine Duhamel
Costume designer: Judy Moorcroft
Sound Designer: Michel Desrois
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"De dood op het scherm"
"Katherine Mortenhoen ostettu kuolema"
"Προμελετημένη δολοφονία"
"데스워치"
"죽음의 중계"
"Śmierć na żywo"
"A Morte em Directo"
"Direktsänd död"
"Ölümü beklerken"
"Смерть наживо"
Revenue: 7,600,000 USD

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