World On A Wire (1973)

World On A Wire (1973)

World On A Wire (1973) movie Poster

Year: 1973

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast: Wolfgang Schenck, Barbara Valentin, Klaus Löwitsch, Ulli Lommel, Günter Lamprecht, Mascha Rabben, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau

World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 West German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye. An adaptation of the Fassbinder version was presented as the play World of Wires, directed by Jay Scheib, in 2012. Its focus is not on action, but on sophistic and philosophic aspects of the human mind, simulation, and the role of scientific research. A movie based on the same novel titled The Thirteenth Floor starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999.

A cybernetics engineer (Klaus Lowitsch) begins observing odd phenomena in the computer generated virtual reality program that he oversees.


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