World on a Wire

World on a Wire
  • Release date: 14 Oct 1973
  • Release year: 1973
  • Runtime: 103 minutes
  • Country: West Germany
  • Keywords: simulation within a simulation, simulated reality, bizarre, uncertainty, dystopia, speculative fiction, psychic, questioning reality, future, computer
Plot:
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?
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