Le Jeu de la mort

Le Jeu de la mort

90 mins | Documentary | March 12, 2010

The Game of Death is a documentary co-produced by France Télévisions and Radio Television Switzerland1 in 2009 and staging a fake game show (The Xtreme Zone) during which a candidate must send electric shocks increasingly strong candidate to another until voltages that can cause death. The staging reproduces the Milgram experiment carried out initially in the United States in 1960 to study the influence of authority on obedience: electric shocks are fictitious, an actor pretending to suffer, and objective is to test the ability to disobey the candidate who inflicts this treatment and who is not aware of the experiment. The notable difference with the original experience is that scientific authority is replaced by a television presenter, Tania Young.

Le Jeu de la mort

90 mins | Documentary | March 12, 2010

Le Jeu de la mort
The Game of Death is a documentary co-produced by France Télévisions and Radio Television Switzerland1 in 2009 and staging a fake game show (The Xtreme Zone) during which a candidate must send electric shocks increasingly strong candidate to another until voltages that can cause death. The staging reproduces the Milgram experiment carried out initially in the United States in 1960 to study the influence of authority on obedience: electric shocks are fictitious, an actor pretending to suffer, and objective is to test the ability to disobey the candidate who inflicts this treatment and who is not aware of the experiment. The notable difference with the original experience is that scientific authority is replaced by a television presenter, Tania Young.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers France Télévisions, Yami 2
Original title Le Jeu de la mort
Directors Thomas Bornot, Gilles Amado, Alain-Michel Blanc
Writers Christophe Nick

Cast

Tania Young

as L'animatrice

Laurent Ledoyen

as Jean-Paul

Philippe Torreton

as Voix off