World on a Wire (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

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 FILES 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 Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the weird world of tomorrow from one of cinemas kinkiest geniuses.

Starring: Günter Lamprecht, Klaus Löwitsch, Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Wolfgang Schenck, Gunter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel, Adrian Hoven, Margit Carstensen, Bruce Low, Christiane Maybach, Christine Kaufmann, Eddie Constantine, El Hedi Ben Salem, Elma Karlowa, Heinz Meier, Karl Scheydt, Katrin Schaake, Liselotte Eder, Magdalena Montezuma, Peter Chatel, Peter Kern, Peter Moland, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Walter Sedlmayr, Werner Schroeter, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Ivan Desny, Joachim Hansen, Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Rudolf Lenz

Director: Peter M rthesheimer