Tonight’s movie….isn’t a movie. World on a Wire or Welt am Draht is a West German miniseries from 1973 (although Criterion has packaged it a bit like a movie).

The description from IMDB:

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?

almost 3.5hrs long, German with english subs. should be interesting. It’s separated in two parts so I should at least be able to watch the first half. If anyone of my followers has ever watched it before I’d like to hear your thoughts on it (without spoilers atm if possible.)