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Das Millionenspiel (1970)
Reality-TV satire before the age of reality-TV
"Das Millionenspiel" ("Million-Game") is a fictional reality-TV show of a fictional private TV-station named "TE-TV".
In the show, Contestant Bernard Lotz is hunted through (western-) Germany for a week by a group of hired killers and has, he and the killers being constantly monitored by 24 camera teams, to reach a series of checkpoints in order to win 1 million German mark (an enormous amount of money - consider the inflation).
In an - for Europe and Germany, where privately owned television stations were not very usual until the 1980's - almost prophetic manner the film draws a picture of a future full of private TV stations and reality-TV-shows competing for market-share.
The film is starring a series of famous German TV moderators and actors and features some bizarre fake-advertisements.
Worth watching.
Grand Slam (1990)
Hilarious bounty-hunter slapstick comedy
Well, I don't remember the film very well anymore, but whatever: In my memory this is a decent slapstick comedy about two competing bounty-hunters, who both have the job to capture one and the same criminal.
Each time one of them *almost* captures the guy the other one back-stabs him in order to arrest the fugitive and cash the bail himself.
The Gomez guy is equipped with some kind of ancient taser device, while the hardball character is used to knock out fugitives by means of a baseball...
Back then I found the film really funny, but it may also be a goofy, mediocre film with a foreseeable plot.