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The Million Game

The Million Game

1970•1h 36m•6.8/10
ActionDramaThrillerTV MovieScience Fiction

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6.8/10(46)

A candidate in a game show is hunted by three men. He will get a Million DMark, if he survives for a week; the hunters will get the money, if they can kill the candidate. The audience of the show is watching the transmissions of twenty camera teams filming the hunt. The showmaster appeals to the TV-viewers to help either the candidate or the hunters, whomever they want.

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Production

WDR

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jörg Pleva

Jörg Pleva

Bernhard Lotz

Dieter Thomas Heck

Dieter Thomas Heck

Showmaster Thilo Uhlenhorst

Friedrich Schütter

Friedrich Schütter

Moulian ( Chef von TETV )

Dieter Hallervorden

Dieter Hallervorden

Köhler ( Chef der Köhlerbande )

Theo Fink

Hänsel ( Mitglied der Köhlerbande )

Josef Fröhlich

Witte ( Mitglied der Köhlerbande )

Peter Schulze-Rohr

Ziegler

Annemarie Schradiek

Mutter Lotz

Elisabeth Wiedemann

Elisabeth Wiedemann

Frau Steinfuhrt

Andrea Grosske

Frau Grote

Brigitte Kortmann

o.A.

Suzanne Roquette

Suzanne Roquette

Claudia von Hohenheim

Joachim Richert

Hotelkellner

Arnim Basche

Außenreporter von TETV

Heribert Faßbender

Außenreporter von TETV

Ralf Gregan

Sanitäter

Gisela Marx

Außenreporterin von TETV

Walter Spiske

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