The Price of Survival

The Price of Survival (1980)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1980-02-18
  • Runtime: 1h 43min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Popular Filmproduktion
  • Production Country: France, Germany
  • Director: Hans Noever

Summary

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.

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  • Michel Piccoli

    as René Winterhalter

  • Martin West

    as Joseph C. Randolph

  • Marilyn Clark

    as Betty Randolph

  • Suzie Galler

    as Kathleen Randolph

  • Ben Dova

    as Old Jim

  • Leonard Belove

    as Henderson

  • Michael Stumm

    as

  • Daniel Rosen

    as Thomas Randolph

  • William Kuhlke

    as

  • Roger Burget

    as

  • Al Christy

    as

  • Jack Layton

    as

  • Kurt Weinzierl

    as

  • Henry Effertz

    as

  • Charles Jones

    as

  • John Haseltine

    as

  • Charles Devault

    as

  • Ken Myers

    as

  • Don Shinkle

    as

  • Kurt Koepke

    as

  • Jack Plympton

    as

  • Jane McMahon

    as

  • Paul Murphy

    as
Camera Ron Fortunato Assistant Camera
Production Dirk Petersmann Unit Manager
Production Richard Pfannenstiel Unit Manager
Crew Kim Schäfermeyer Cinematography
Directing Alain Wermus Assistant Director
Writing Patrick Roth Dialogue
Directing Dirk Petersmann Assistant Director
Writing Christian Watton Dialogue
Production Veith von Fürstenberg Production Manager
Editing Susi Gogel Assistant Editor
Sound Hans-Dieter Schwarz Sound Mixer
Sound Michael Etz Sound Assistant
Editing Silvia Huber Assistant Editor
Sound Ed Parente Sound
Directing Ursula Jeshel Assistant Director
Production Elvira Senft Producer
Production Denyse Noever Producer
Art Toni Lüdi Production Design
Costume & Make-Up Carol Cox Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Anita Müllerschön Costume Design
Production Michel Piccoli Producer
Production Hans Kaden Co-Producer
Production Molly von Fürstenberg Producer
Directing Hans Noever Director
Camera Walter Lassally Director of Photography
Writing Hans Noever Writer
Sound Joe Haider Music
Editing Christa Wernicke Editor

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