In a future where dying of illness is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.
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| 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) | |
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Vadim Glowna | ... | Harry Graves |
| Eva Maria Meineke | ... | Dr. Klausen | |
| Bernhard Wicki | ... | Katherine's Dad (as Bernard Wicki) | |
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Freddie Boardley | ... | Technician |
| Robbie Coltrane | ... | Limosine driver | |
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Julian Hough | ... | Young doctor |
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Peter Kelly | ... | Technician |
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Boyd Nelson | ... | Policeman |
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Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television Producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular television series, "Death Watch". Written by Philip Brubaker <coda@nando.net>
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April 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Death Watch See more »Filming Locations:
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Castle Street, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK See more »Company Credits
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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.