German SciFi: Fassbinder's "World on a Wire" (1973)

Fassbinder's World on a Wire was originally a two part (about 3.5 hrs give or take a few minutes) series made for German TV dealing philosophically with virtual worlds. Storyline from the IMDB:

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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?

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If you like this sort of thing (SciFi, foreign language with subtitles) and you're looking for something new, give it a shot. It's available on Hulu.