The Gladiators
Cast & Crew
Peter Watkins
Arthur Pentelow
Frederick Danner
Hans Bendrik
Daniel Harlé
Hans Berger
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
To circumvent global war the great powers devise rituals in which man's aggressive instincts are harnessed. At televised Peace Games sponsored by a spaghetti company, soldiers from many nations participate in deadly computerized war games. In Game 256, monitored by the Swedish army and supervised by a panel of international observers, an allied team of American and European contestants attempts to wrest the control room and computer from Chinese combatants. To this end the allies capture a Chinese female soldier. During a computer malfunction a British warrior falls in love with the prisoner and attempts to escape with her. Unknowingly, a radical French student, intent on sabotaging the system, reactivates the computer, and the panel executes the lovers.
Director
Peter Watkins
Cast
Arthur Pentelow
Frederick Danner
Hans Bendrik
Daniel Harlé
Hans Berger
Rosario Gianetti
Tim Yum
Kenneth Lo
Björn Franzén
Christer Gynge
Jürgen Schling
Stefan Dillan
Ugo Chiari
Chandrakant Desai
George Harris
Jeremy Child
Erich Stering
Jean-pierre Delamour
Richard Friday
Roy Scammel
J. Z. Kennedy
Eberhard Fehmers
Terry Whitmore
Nguyen
To Van Minh
Pik-sen Lim
Michael Cheuk
Taras Lee
Eng Chee Gan
Heng Ko Lei
Henry Chan
Louis Cheng
Sik-yng Waung
Bill Fay
Keith Bradfield
Crew
William Brodie
Chris Collins
Jutte Ekman
Claes Af Geijerstam
Nicholas Gosling
Lars Hagström
Bo Jonsson
Stig Lindberg
Göran Lindgren
Gustav Mahler
Bertil Sandgren
Tage Sjöberg
Peter Suschitzky
Peter Watkins
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Opened in Linköping, Sweden, in June 1969 as Gladiatorerna; running time: 105 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1969
Released in United States 1969
