Death Watch (1980)

Original title

La Mort en direct

Directed by

Bertrand Tavernier

Genre

drama film, science fiction film, dystopian film

Country

Germany, France

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 115 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a near-future society, a woman is diagnosed with a terminal illness and becomes the subject of a reality show that broadcasts her final days. A man with a camera implanted in his eye secretly films her for the show, but his assignment blurs into an obsession.

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What happens

Death Watch (French: La Mort en direct, lit. 'Death Live') is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by D. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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