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DVD

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World on a wire = Welt am draht

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Two-DVD special ed.

Languages

In German, with English subtitles.

Performers

Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Ulli Lommel.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2012]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Reluctant hero Fred Stilelr is a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.

Originally broadcast as a television miniseries in Germany in 1973.

Special features: Fassbinder's "World on a wire" : looking ahead to today, a 50-minute documentary about the making of the film by Juliane Lorenz ; interview with German-film scholar Gerd Gemünden ; trailer for the 2010 theatrical release.

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