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Director
  
Peter Watkins

Duration
  

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Sci-Fi

Country
  
Sweden

The Gladiators (film) movie poster

Language
  
English Cantonese French German Swedish

Release date
  
25 June 1969

Writer
  
Nicholas Gosling, Peter Watkins

Cast
  
Arthur Pentelow
,
Frederick Danner
,
Hans Bendrik
,
Daniel Harle

Music director
  
Gustav Mahler, Claes af Geijerstam

Screenplay
  
Peter Watkins, Nicholas Gosling

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The Gladiators (Swedish: Gladiatorerna, alternate title The Peace Game) is a 1969 Swedish drama/science fiction film directed by Peter Watkins.

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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 program.

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 Officer
  • Pik-Sen Lim as C-2

    • References

    The Gladiators (film) Wikipedia
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    The Gladiators (film) IMDb The Gladiators (film) themoviedb.org