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What it's about
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?
Cast and crew
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Starring
- Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben
Details
- Release date
- Oct 14, 1973
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- West Germany
- Awards
- 1 win
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