World on a Wireis 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 Lwitsch), 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 Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the world of tomorrow from one of cinemas kinkiest geniuses.
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Film Info
- Germany
- 1973
- 212 minutes
- Color
- 1.33:1
- German
- Spine #598
Special Features
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Fassbinders 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 Gemnden
- New English subtitles
- Trailer for the 2010 theatrical release
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Ed Halter
New cover by Sam Smith
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