Le prix du danger (1983)In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television. Director:Yves Boisset |
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Le prix du danger (1983)In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television. Director:Yves Boisset |
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| Gérard Lanvin | ... |
François Jacquemard
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| Michel Piccoli | ... |
Frédéric Mallaire
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| Marie-France Pisier | ... |
Laurence Ballard
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Bruno Cremer | ... |
Antoine Chirex
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Andréa Ferréol | ... |
Élisabeth Worms
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Jean Rougerie | ... |
Président commission
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| Jean-Claude Dreyfus | ... |
Bertrand
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Jean-Pierre Bagot | ... |
Alexandre
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Henri-Jacques Huet | ... |
Victor Segal
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Dragan Stueljanin | ... |
Roederer
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Steve Kalfa | ... |
Édouard
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Zlata Numanagic | ... |
Jacqueline
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Julien Bukowski | ... |
Arnaud
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| Gabrielle Lazure | ... |
Marianne
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Catherine Lachens | ... |
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In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
Robert Sheckley is a great sci-fi writer whose short stories are witty and absorbing.Yves Boisset was definitely not the kind of director who could do him justice.
Yves Boisset could succeed in treating committed subjects (the Algeria war in "RAS" or racism in "Dupont -Lajoie".But in "le Prix du Danger" ,he's shooting us a line!The lead is an unambitious actor,Gérard Lanvin,who has made turkeys by the dozen (only "une Semaine de Vacances" and "Une étrange Affaire" are above average in his filmography)He is here no more than Van Damme and co.Michel Piccoli and Marie-France Pisier are supposed to provide the movie with an intellectual alibi,but their cardboard characters and their underwritten parts do not help.
A faux pas: there were many of them in Boisset's eighties' career.