The Price of Survival (1980)

ALL 02/18/1980 (de) Drama 103 Min
  • Release
    02/18/1980
  • Production
    Popular Filmproduktion, DNS-Filmproduktion, BR, Films 66
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Der Preis fürs Überleben
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.

  1. Hans Noever

    Director

  2. Story



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The Price of Survival (1980) 103 Min

ALL 02/18/1980 (de)
Drama
  • Release 02/18/1980
  • Production
    Popular Filmproduktion, DNS-Filmproduktion, BR, Films 66
  • Original title Der Preis fürs Überleben
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.

  1. Hans Noever

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Christa Wernicke

    Editor

  4. Elvira Senft, Denyse Noever, Michel Piccoli, Molly von Fürstenberg

    Producer