The Prize of Peril
Synopsis
Based on a Robert Sheckley tale, the action is brought about by a television show invented by money-motivated executives with ratings on the brain. The idea is to choose someone from the vast sea of the unemployed and cast them as the "hunted," while five others are the "hunters." The prey receives a million dollars if he or she can outsmart the five hunters, and a hunter gets $100,000 for finding and killing their human target. François Jacquemard (Gerard Lanvin) is chosen to be the man who has to outsmart the five hitmen, and when he proves to be too good at it, the TV executives have to find a way to outsmart him. All the drama, from beginning to end, is played out under the watchful eyes of multiple TV cameras, on the ground and in the air, while blood-thirsty viewers stay glued to their sets like Romans watching the gladiators -- but unlike the Romans, they are regularly interrupted by those annoying commercial breaks.
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Director (1)
Actors (14)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Cathala Productions, TF1 Films Production, UGC Images, Swanie Productions
- Foreign production company : Avala Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Norbert Saada
- Screenwriters : Jean Curtelin, Yves Boisset
- Dialogue Writer : Jean Curtelin
- Director of Photography : Pierre-William Glenn
- Music Composer : Vladimir Cosma
- Assistant directors : Marc Angelo, Paolo Barzman
- Editors : Michelle David, Nicole Gauduchon, Élisabeth Guido
- Costume designer : Jacques Fonteray
- Author of original work : Robert Sheckley
- Assistant Operators : Sylvie Carcédo, Alain Choquart
- Production Manager : Georges Valon
- Continuity supervisor : Claudine Taulère
- Production Designer : Serge Douy
- Still Photographer : Paul Apoteker
- Location Manager : Jacques Schaeffer
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Thriller
- Themes : Television
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Yugoslavia, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Yugoslavia, France)
- Production year : 1982
- French release : 26/01/1983
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 50868
- Visa issue date : 24/01/1983
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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