World on a Wire

Welt am Draht

What world do we live in? Is it real?

Release date : 1973-10-14

Production country :

Germany

Production company :

WDR

Network :

Das Erste

Status : Ended

Total Season : 1

Total episode : 2

Popularity : 3.4322

7.199 Total Vote : 73

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mystery

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World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a two-part 1973 West German science fiction television serial broadcast on ARD. Shot on 16 mm film, the two-part miniseries is drected 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 project simulating 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.