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Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Writers:
David Compton (novel)
David Rayfiel (writer)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
April 1982 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
She's the target of every eye...including eyes only science could create.
Plot:
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 6 nominations more
NewsDesk:
James Russo to star in 'Dark Woods'
 (From The Hollywood News. 15 September 2008, 8:48 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Prescient dark film - how long 'til we're watching "Deathwatch"? more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Romy Schneider ... Katherine Mortenhoe

Harvey Keitel ... Roddy

Harry Dean Stanton ... Vincent Ferriman
Thérèse Liotard ... Tracey

Max von Sydow ... Gerald Mortenhoe (as Max Von Sydow)
Caroline Langrishe ... Girl in the Bar
William Russell ... Dr.Mason (as William Russel)
Vadim Glowna ... Harry Graves
Eva Maria Meineke ... Dr.Klausen
Bernhard Wicki ... Katherine's Dad (as Bernard Wicki)
Freddie Boardley ... Technician

Robbie Coltrane ... Limosine driver
Julian Hough ... Young doctor
Peter Kelly ... Technician
Boyd Nelson ... Policeman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Death Watch (UK) (USA)
Death Watch - Der gekaufte Tod (West Germany)
Death in Full View
Deathwatch (USA)
Der gekaufte Tod (West Germany)
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Runtime:
128 min
Language:
English | French | German
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:16
Company:
Films A2 more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This is Robbie Coltrane's first motion picture. more
Quotes:
Vincent Ferriman: Look how shy we've become about death. It's the new pornography. more
Movie Connections:
References The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Prescient dark film - how long 'til we're watching "Deathwatch"?, 6 December 2003
9/10
Author: Fred from Boston, Mass.

This movie foretold the downside of the "reality TV" craze twenty years before it happened. Wonderful brooding cinematography around greater Glasgow at its most depressed. This is definitely a film which deserves to be in greater circulation and better known than it currently is. Romy Schneider's last film, ironically enough, and an excellent very real performance in a fairly artsy 70s vein. I should note I saw this in Glasgow some years ago, and it was the European cut, not what sounds to be a bowdlerized American version which misses some of the point.

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