World on a wire [videorecording] / Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation presents ; producers, Peter Märthesheimer, Alexander Wesemann ; screenplay, Fritz Müller-Scherz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Title from container. Klaus Lowitsch, Ulli Lommel. Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Special features: New, restored digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; 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; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Ed Halter.
Summary:
The noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, Fred Stiller, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? Virtual reality. Originally made for German television, the recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the weird world of tomorrow from one of cinema's kinkiest geniuses. It's a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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