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The Gladiators (film)
''The Gladiators'' ( sv, Gladiatorerna, alternate title ''The Peace Game'') is a 1969 Swedish drama/science fiction film directed by Peter Watkins. Plot In order to prevent a Third World War, the superpowers decide to introduce "international peace games," a deadly miniature battle fought between small teams of drafted teenage soldiers from each country and broadcast on TV around the world as the most popular reality TV programme. Cast * Arthur Pentelow as British General * Frederick Danner as British Staff Officer * Hans Bendrik as Capt. Davidsson * Daniel Harle as French Officer * Hans Berger as West German Officer * Rosario Gianetti as American Officer * Tim Yum as Chinese Staff Officer * Kenneth Lo as Chinese Colonel * Björn Franzen as Swedish Colonel * Christer Gynge as Assistant Controller * Jürgen Schilling as East German Officer * Stefan Dillan as Russian Officer * Ugo Chiari as Italian Officer * Chandrakant Desai as Indian Officer * George Harris as Nigerian Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, '' Culloden'', portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film ''Edvard Munch''. '' La Commune'' reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors. In 2004, he wrote the book '' Media Crisis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harris (actor)
George William Harris (born 20 October 1949) is a British actor. His notable roles include Kingsley Shacklebolt in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, Captain Simon Katanga in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and Clive King in the BBC medical drama '' Casualty'', where he was one of the original cast members. He also played real-life Somali warlord Osman Ali Atto in the 2001 film '' Black Hawk Down''. Life and career In 2013, he played the Abbot of the Black Friars in a BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's London fantasy ''Neverwhere''. Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960 ...
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Films About Death Games
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Peter Watkins
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
