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World on a Wire (Welt am Draht)

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Genre:SciFi/Fantasy
Release Date:July 22, 2011
Running time:205 minutes
Director:Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer:Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Distributor:Janus Films

Description: A dystopic science-fiction epic, World on a Wire is German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder's gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. With dashes of Kubrick, Vonnegut, and Dick, but a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant action hero Fred Stiller, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate and governmental conspiracy. At risk? Our entire (virtual) reality as we know it. This long unseen 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.

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