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64% Critic Match
Death Watch
“She's the target of every eye… including eyes only science could create.”
6.4 / 10• 1980• 2h 11m•R• French
DramaScience Fiction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Romy Schneider
Katherine Mortenhoe
Lead
Harvey Keitel
Roddy
Harry Dean Stanton
Vincent Ferriman
Thérèse Liotard
Tracey
Max von Sydow
Gerald Mortenhoe
Caroline Langrishe
Girl in the Bar
William Russell
Dr. Mason
Vadim Glowna
Harry Graves
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Bertrand Tavernier's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Death Watch is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
