DVD
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.
Uniform Title
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.