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Has anyone watched "World on a Wire" (70's German proto-Matrix)?

was it good? it seems to pop up a lot on "best-of"...
High-end Fishy Stag Film
  05/21/14
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High-end Fishy Stag Film
  05/22/14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD2d7iBHiMM
glittery weed whacker site
  09/14/20
i really liked the movie, but i love older movies, they are ...
glittery weed whacker site
  09/20/21
first half is really good but it drags and drags and drags ...
Stimulating Stage
  09/20/21
Need to summon up the courage to watch this. It's on the lis...
vibrant main people
  09/20/21
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i gave my cousin head
  08/04/25


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Date: May 21st, 2014 7:34 PM
Author: High-end Fishy Stag Film

was it good? it seems to pop up a lot on "best-of" lists relating to sci-fi films, but 205 minutes is a big investment of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire

"World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht), is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for German television and originally aired in 1973, as a two-part miniseries. Starring Klaus Löwitsch, it was based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.

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At the institute for cybernetics and future science ("Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung, IKZ"), a new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with over 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulacron..."



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Date: May 22nd, 2014 3:02 PM
Author: High-end Fishy Stag Film



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Date: September 14th, 2020 8:04 AM
Author: glittery weed whacker site

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Date: September 20th, 2021 10:18 PM
Author: glittery weed whacker site

i really liked the movie, but i love older movies, they are more about dialogue and shit, not dumb ass special effects and shit

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Date: September 20th, 2021 10:20 PM
Author: Stimulating Stage

first half is really good but it drags and drags and drags

it was produced as a ~4hr thing for 2 nights of german tv, and it feels like a really good 2hr idea stretched into 4hr

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Date: September 20th, 2021 10:21 PM
Author: vibrant main people

Need to summon up the courage to watch this. It's on the list.

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Date: August 4th, 2025 6:01 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head



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