Restoring Fassbinder's World On a Wire
American Cinematographer › Vol. 91 Nbr. 7, July 2010
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Restoring Fassbinder's World On a Wire
Film restoration often leads authences to discover classic pictures they have only heard about but never seen, and World on a Wire Welt am Draht), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and shot by future ASC member Michael Ballhaus, seems ripe for rediscovery given its pedigree, extreme stylization and heady ideas.
Created for West German television in 1973, the film was adapted from the 1954 American novel Simulacron 3. In the film, Dr. Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch) is a research scientist with the Simulacron 1 program, a computer designed to concoct theoretical models of future s...See the full content of this document
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