Le prix du danger

Le Prix du Danger
Le Prix du Danger movie poster
Directed by	Yves Boisset
Written by	Yves Boisset Jean Curtelin
Based on	The Prize of Peril by Robert Sheckley
Starring	Gérard Lanvin Michel Piccoli Marie-France Pisier Bruno Cremer Andréa Ferreol Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Music by	Vladimir Cosma
Release dates	January 1983 (1983-01)
Running time	100 min
Country	France Yugoslavia
Language	French

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

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

• Das Millionenspiel – German TV movie from 1970
• The Running Man – 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Hunger Games (film series)

Bibliography

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

External links

• Le Prix du Danger at IMDb