WORLD ON A WIRE
The trailer for 1973’s WORLD ON A WIRE. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and written by Fassbinder and Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on the novel by Daniel F. Galouye. The film stars Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günter Lamprecht, and Ulli Lommel.
The plot summary is as follows:
Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness - Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?
As of this writing, WORLD ON A WIRE is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel but is not available for digital rent/purchase.