- HD 1080
- Runtime: 131m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: Germany, France
- Director: Bertrand Tavernier
- Stars: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, Max von Sydow
- keywords: husband wife relationship, glasgow, scotland, yellow press, dystopia, terminal illness, tv reporter, ex-husband ex-wife relationship, sensationalism, cybernetically enhanced
- Production_studio: TV13, Gaumont International, Little Bear, Sara Films, SFP, Selta Films, Antenne 2
- Slogan: She's the target of every eye… including eyes only science could create.
- providers: Criterion Channel, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel
- The Death Watch is featured in the top rankings of 1980
- #78 in Top Drama Movies of 1980
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.