The Gladiators (Swedish: Gladiatorerna, alternate title The Peace Game) is a 1969 Swedish drama/science fiction film directed by Peter Watkins.
In order to prevent a Third World War, the superpowers decide to introduce “international peace games” (i.e.- a miniature battle fought between teams of soldiers and later on broadcast on TV around the world).
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Gladiator
Film
Directed by
Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of...
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- 1 h 32 min
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