World on a Wire (Criterion Collection)

World on a Wire (Criterion Collection)
Klaus Lowitsch (Actor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director)|Format: DVD
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Release Date: February 21, 2012

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Review & Description

World on a Wire is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun). With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, Fred Stiller (The Odessa File’s Klaus Lowitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it. Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the weird world of tomorrow from one of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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2003 in DVD
• Released on: 2012-02-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: German
• Subtitled in: English
• Running time: 212 minutes