Rent The Year Of The Sex Olympics (1968)


Nigel Kneale's eerily prescient drama is set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions1 - love, war, hate and loyalty - have been removed. Overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest (Leonard Rossiter) works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed 24 hours a day. A concept which may sound familiar some 35 years on....
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Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Release Date: 28/04/2003
Production Year: 1968
Run Time: 103 minutes
Aspect Ratio: Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Format: Pal
Colour: B & W
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