World on a Wire (1973)

Original title

Welt am Draht

Directed by

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Genre

miniseries, drama television series, arthouse science fiction film, science fiction television series

Country

Germany

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist discovers that the world around him might be a computer simulation. He investigates the nature of reality and his own identity.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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