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WHAT WORLD DO WE LIVE IN? IS IT REAL?
7.2/10 1973 4K 102 min
Drama • Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Mystery

World on a Wire is a two-part 1973 West German science fiction television serial broadcast on ARD. Shot on 16 mm film, the two-part miniseries is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who co-writes the screenplay with Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3. In the future, Simulacron, a computer simulated reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr Fred Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

World on a Wire
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Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch
Fred Stiller
Mascha Rabben
Mascha Rabben
Eva Vollmer
Karl-Heinz Vosgerau
Karl-Heinz Vosgerau
Herbert Siskins
Adrian Hoven
Adrian Hoven
Professor Henry Vollmer
Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny
Günther Lause
Ingrid Caven
Ingrid Caven
Secretary Uschi
Barbara Valentin
Barbara Valentin
Gloria Fromm
Günter Lamprecht
Günter Lamprecht
Fritz Walfang
Margit Carstensen
Margit Carstensen
Maya Schmidt-Genter
Wolfgang Schenck
Wolfgang Schenck
Franz Hahn