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Das Millionenspiel

Regie: Tom Toelle
TV-MovieDE 197090'OF
Sonntag, 16. Juni 2002, 19:00 Uhr
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The film is set in North Rhine-Westphalia between Osnabrück and Cologne. The candidate Lotz has to run for his life for a week, pursued by three killers and even more cameras. He stands to earn a million marks if he survives, and viewers can help him. On an obscure private channel of the future, a moderator (Dieter Thomas Heck) broadcasts the show live. A brutal »interactive« manhunt, advertising breaks, and ratings pressure: these were still fiction in the TV industry at the time, but they anticipated the development of the media in the 80s and 90s to a tee. The material by Robert Sheckley has been filmed several times and even prior to 1970, including a version with Marcello Mastroianni in the 60s. At present, there is talk of a new Hollywood take. But it was Menge and director Toelle who with their cynical vision triggered the strongest reactions in TV history until then. »I’m a good killer« was just one of the comments made by someone seeking a part in the show, which thousands of German citizens took at face value.
Director
Tom Toelle
Screenplay
Tom Toelle, Wolfgang Menge nach einer Novelle von Robert Sheckley
Producers
Peter Märthesheimer
Cinematography
Jan Kalis, Rudolf Holan
Editing
Ron Ormond, Tim Ormond
Music
Can
Cast
Dieter Hallvorden, Heribert Faßbender, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Friedrich Schütter, Peter Schulze-Rohr, Annemarie Schradiek, Suzanne Roquette, Dieter Thomas Heck, Andrea Grosske, Josef Fröhlich, Theo Fink, Jörg Pleva
Production
WDR