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Le prix du danger

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Le Prix du Danger
Le Prix du Danger movie poster
Directed byYves Boisset
Written byYves Boisset
Jean Curtelin
Based onThe Prize of Peril
by Robert Sheckley
Starring
Music byVladimir Cosma
Release date
  • January 1983 (1983-01)
Running time
100 min
CountriesFrance
Yugoslavia
LanguageFrench

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

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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

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Bibliography

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  • Willis, Donald C. (1985), Variety's Complete Science Fiction Reviews, Garland Publishing Inc, pp. 415–416, ISBN 978-0824087128
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