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Welt am Draht = World on a wire /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2117D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 598.Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2012Description: 2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604655469
  • 1604655461
Other title:
  • Title on container: World on a wire
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Galouye, Daniel F. Simulacron-3
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .W458 2012
  • PN1992.77 .W435 2012
  • PS3557.A42 S52 1973b
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Music, Gottfried Hüngsberg ; editors, Marie Anne Gerhardt, Ursula Elles ; directors of photography, Michael Ballhaus, Ullrich Prinz ; costume design, Gabriele Pillon ; production design, Kurt Raab, Horst Giese, Walter Koch.
Cast: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel, Adrian Hoven, Ivan Desny, Joachim Hansen, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Rudolf Lenz, Lieselotte Eder, Heinz Meier, Peter Chatel, Rainer Hauer, Ernst Künsters, Elhedi Ben Salem, Karl Scheydt, Solange Pradel, Bruce Low, Elma Karlowa, Maryse Dellannoy, Werner Schroeter, Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Rainer Langhans, Corinna Brocher, Dora Karras-Frank, Katrin Schaake, Peter Gauhe, Christiane Maybach, Walter, Sedlmayr, Eddie ConstantineSummary: The noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy substituting simulations for reality.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02234 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050184089

Based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.

Booklet features an essay by film critic Ed Halter.

Originally produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk for release on German television in 1973.

Special features: Disc 1: Interview with Gerd Gemünden; Trailer. Disc 2: Fassbinder's "World on a wire": looking ahead to today (a 50 minute documentary by Juliane Lorenz).

DVD; region 1 ; NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; PCM mono.

German dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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