TV Show Details
Air Date:October 14th, 1973
Last Air Date:October 16th, 1973
Network:Das Erste
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Original Language:German
Production Companies:WDR
World on a Wire (1973)
Das Erste
Miniseries
"What world do we live in? Is it real?"
Audience Score
Plot
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.
