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1980
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.
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Watching old science fiction films can be interesting when their plot settings allow our present-day world to be compared with what the filmmakers imagined it to be many decades ago. Many such films, even the undisputed classics like *2001* and *Blade Runner*, got their predictions wrong. Others got predictions right, but that wasn’t enough to make them good films. One such example can be found in *Death Watch*, a 1…More
