Das Millionenspiel

Das Millionenspiel The Game of Millions sometimes translated as Chance for a Million is a German actionscifi television film of 1970, directed by Tom Toelle and starring Jrg Pleva, Suzanne Roquette and Dieter Thomas Heck. It was aired onOctober 1970 by the ARD. Wolfgang Menge wrote the screenplay, adapting the short story The Prize of Peril by the American writer Robert Sheckley. Wolfgang Menge and Tom Toelle received the 1971 Prix Italia for best television movie.

Bernhard Lotz from Leverkusen is the shows 15th candidate. After almost a week without sleep and little food, he is full of agony and on the verge of physical collapse Lotz could drop out, but there is the prospect of the grand prize of one million marks, and he knows the fate of one of his predecessors when he forfeited the game, he was so derided as a coward that he eventually committed suicide.The whole country watches the manhunt on TV, some fascinated, some disgusted. Lotz tries hiding, but he is always recognized. Some want to deliver him to the Khler gang, but some help him. Throughout the game, the Khler gang is always hot on his heels. ........

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