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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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