--- title: 'Death Watch (1980)' type: 'film' director: 'Bertrand Tavernier' released: '1980-01-11' runtime_minutes: 128 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'Germany' - 'France' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/death-watch-1980' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081182/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Death Watch (1980) 1980 · R · 128 min · Drama, Science Fiction · Germany, France Original title: La Mort en direct ## Synopsis Death Watch is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the 1973 novel The Unsleeping Eye by D. G. Compton. The film was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. The film had 1,013,842 admissions in France and was the 35th most attended film of the year. ## Credits - **Director:** [Bertrand Tavernier](https://cinepixo.com/people/bertrand-tavernier) - **Screenplay:** [Bertrand Tavernier](https://cinepixo.com/people/bertrand-tavernier), [David Rayfiel](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-rayfiel) - **Original Music Composer:** [Antoine Duhamel](https://cinepixo.com/people/antoine-duhamel) - **Director of Photography:** [Pierre-William Glenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-william-glenn) - **Editor:** [Armand Psenny](https://cinepixo.com/people/armand-psenny) ## Cast - [Harvey Keitel](https://cinepixo.com/people/harvey-keitel) - [Harry Dean Stanton](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-dean-stanton) - [Vadim Glowna](https://cinepixo.com/people/vadim-glowna) - [Caroline Langrishe](https://cinepixo.com/people/caroline-langrishe) - [David Haubenstock](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-haubenstock) - [William Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-russell) - [Thérèse Liotard](https://cinepixo.com/people/therese-liotard) - [Romy Schneider](https://cinepixo.com/people/romy-schneider) - [Derek Royle](https://cinepixo.com/people/derek-royle) - [Eva Maria Meineke](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-maria-meineke) - [Bernhard Wicki](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-wicki) - [Max von Sydow](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-von-sydow) - [Robbie Coltrane](https://cinepixo.com/people/robbie-coltrane) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/death-watch-1980 Film facts: Wikidata (Q115210); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.