Le prix du danger
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Le Prix du Danger | |
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Directed by | Yves Boisset |
Written by | Yves Boisset Jean Curtelin |
Based on | The Prize of Peril by Robert Sheckley |
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Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
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Running time | 100 min |
Countries | France Yugoslavia |
Language | French |
Le Prix du Danger (The Prize of Peril) is a 1983 French-Yugoslav science fiction movie, directed by Yves Boisset. It is based on Robert Sheckley's short story "The Prize of Peril", published in 1958.
Premise
In the most popular television game show of the near future, regular people volunteer to be hunted by a team of five pursuers who are also volunteers. If they survive, they get an enormous cash prize, but no one has managed to survive the game show. A new volunteer needs the money to support his family.
See also
- Das Millionenspiel – German TV movie from 1970
- The Running Man – 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Hunger Games (film series)
Bibliography
- Willis, Donald C. (1985), Variety's Complete Science Fiction Reviews, Garland Publishing Inc, pp. 415–416, ISBN 978-0824087128
External links
Categories:
- 1983 films
- 1980s dystopian films
- French science fiction films
- 1983 science fiction films
- Films directed by Yves Boisset
- Films scored by Vladimir Cosma
- Films shot in Serbia
- Films about television
- Films based on short fiction
- Adaptations of works by Robert Sheckley
- Films about death games
- Yugoslav science fiction films
- 1980s French films
- 1980s science fiction film stubs