Das Millionenspiel (1970) (TV)

Director:

Tom Toelle

Writers:

Wolfgang Menge (writer)
Robert Sheckley (novel)

Release Date:

18 October 1970 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money...

Plot Keywords:

Chase | Media Spoof | Foreign Language Adaptation | Fictional Game Show | Man Hunt

Cast

Jörg Pleva	...	Bernhard Lotz
Dieter Thomas Heck	...	Showmaster Thilo Uhlenhorst
Friedrich Schütter	...	Moulian, Chef von TETV
Dieter Hallervorden	...	Köhler, Chef der 'Köhlerbande'
Theo Fink	...	Hänsel, Mitglied der 'Köhlerbande'
Josef Fröhlich	...	Witte, Mitglied der 'Köhlerbande'
Peter Schulze-Rohr	...	Ziegler
Annemarie Schradiek	...	Mutter Lotz
Elisabeth Wiedemann	...	Frau Steinfurth
Andrea Grosske	...	Frau Grote
Brigitte Kortmann
Suzanne Roquette	...	Claudia von Hohenheim
Theodor Haarmann
Alfred de Mester
Joachim Richert	...	Hotelkellner

Also Known As:

The Millions Game (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

Germany:96 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Trivia:

Wolfgang Menge's script is based on a story from Robert Sheckley.

Movie Connections:

Version of Le prix du danger (1983)

Lotz is running to save his life - if he manages to survive seven days he'll get one million DeutschMarks

The fiction seems to be perfect: Millions of TV-watchers experience the hunting of Bernhard Lotz, who as a candidate for a TV-Show is hunted seven days by a professional team of killers. Lotz is running to save his life - if he manages to survive the seven days he'll get one million DeutschMarks. What sounds like one of those cheap SciFi - Productions is produced in very realistic style. The airplay was 1970 - and some people could not decide whether it's fiction or reality. Some called the TV-Stations and complained about it, some asked to be the next candidate and some even asked if they could join the team of killers. The Author of this tv-drama has seen the future in a very realistic way: The breaks for tasteless advertising in the show, the boss of the private television station who does everything to boost the ratings, the talking about very intimate things with people on air etc. Nowadays people do the craziest things in those so called "reality shows" to get some money even do without their personal freedom and numerous human rights. Everything in this film which was fiction that time has become quite common today except of killing people - this makes the movie much more than one of those Hollywood stories, it's a document of time...