World on a Wire
World on a Wire is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant hero Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it. Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the world of tomorrow from one of cinema’s kinkiest geniuses.
Special Features
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Fassbinder’s “World on a Wire”: Looking Ahead to Today, a fifty-minute documentary about the making of the film by Juliane Lorenz
- New interview with German-film scholar Gerd Gemünden
- New English subtitles
- Trailer for the 2010 theatrical release
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Ed Halter
New cover by Sam Smith
Special Features
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Fassbinder’s “World on a Wire”: Looking Ahead to Today, a fifty-minute documentary about the making of the film by Juliane Lorenz
- New interview with German-film scholar Gerd Gemünden
- New English subtitles
- Trailer for the 2010 theatrical release
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Ed Halter
New cover by Sam Smith
Cast
- Klaus Löwitsch
- Fred Stiller
- Mascha Rabben
- Eva Vollmer
- Karl-Heinz Vosgerau
- Herbert Siskins
- Adrian Hoven
- Professor Henry Vollmer
- Ivan Desny
- Günther Lause
- Barbara Valentin
- Gloria Fromm
- Günther Lamprecht
- Fritz Walfang
- Margit Carstensen
- Maya Schmidt-Gentner
- Wolfgang Schenck
- Franz Hahn
- Joachim Hansen
- Hans Edelkern
- Rudolf Lenz
- Hartmann
- Kurt Raab
- Mark Holm
- Karl Scheydt
- Detective Stuhlfauth
- Rainer Hauer
- Inspector Lehner
- Ulli Lommel
- Rupp
- Heinz Meier
- Von Weinlaub
- Ingrid Caven
- Uschi
- Eddie Constantine
- Man in car
- Rainer Langhans
- Waiter at party
Credits
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Produced by
- Peter Märthesheimer
- Produced by
- Alexander Wesemann
- Based on the novel Simulacron-3 by
- Daniel F. Galouye
- Screenplay
- Fritz Müller-Scherz
- Screenplay
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Director of photography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Camera assistant
- Ulrich Prinz
- Editor
- Marie Anne Gerhardt
- Production design
- Kurt Raab
- Costume design
- Gabriele Pillon
- Makeup
- Rosemarie Schönartz
- Assistant directors
- Renate Leiffer
- Assistant directors
- Fritz Müller-Scherz
- Continuity
- Corinna Brocher
- Music
- Gottfried Hüngsberg and Archives
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