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Death Watch is a french film of genre Drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier released in USA on 1 april 1982 with Romy Schneider
Death Watch (1980)
La Mort en direct
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 april 1982
Length 2h8
OriginFrance
Themes Films about television, Films set in the future, La téléréalité, Political films, Dystopian films
Rating65%
Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct) is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe. 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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The film is set in a future where death from illness has become extremely unusual. When Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider) is diagnosed as having an incurable disease, she becomes a celebrity and is besieged by journalists. The television company NTV (headed by Vincent Ferriman) offers her a large sum of money if she will allow her last days to be filmed and made into a reality television show – they have already spied on her as she is told of her diagnosis (her doctor is colluding with them) and prepared posters for the show which show her face (to her annoyance when she sees the posters on display before they have contacted her).Actors
Romy Schneider
(Katherine Mortenhoe)
Harvey Keitel
(Roddy)
Harry Dean Stanton
(Vincent Ferriman)
Thérèse Liotard
(Tracey)
Caroline Langrishe
(Girl in the Bar)
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