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“What world do we live in? Is it real?”
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.

Klaus Löwitsch
Fred Stiller

Mascha Rabben
Eva Vollmer

Karl-Heinz Vosgerau
Herbert Siskins

Adrian Hoven
Professor Henry Vollmer

Ivan Desny
Günther Lause

Ingrid Caven
Secretary Uschi

Barbara Valentin
Gloria Fromm

Günter Lamprecht
Fritz Walfang

Margit Carstensen
Maya Schmidt-Genter

Wolfgang Schenck
Franz Hahn
World on a Wire is a drama, sci-fi & fantasy, mystery series that first aired in 1973 exploring themes of based on novel or book, simulation, super computer, simulated reality , computer program, virtual reality. Created by Daniel F. Galouye, it stars Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau. 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.
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