Death Watch
Jan 23 1980
•2h 11m
•Drama, Science Fiction
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
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Romy Schneider
Katherine Mortenhoe
Harvey Keitel
Roddy
Harry Dean Stanton
Vincent Ferriman
Thérèse Liotard
Tracey
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