World on a Wire

World on a Wire
World on a Wire
	Press info ("Presseheft") front cover
Directed by	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Screenplay by	Fritz Müller-Scherz; Rainer Werner Fassbinder;
Based on	Simulacron-3; by Daniel F. Galouye
Produced by	Peter Märthesheimer; Alexander Wesemann;
Starring	Klaus Löwitsch; Barbara Valentin; Mascha Rabben; Karl-Heinz Vosgerau; Wolfgang Schenck; Günter Lamprecht; Ulli Lommel;
Cinematography	Michael Ballhaus; Ulrich Prinz;
Edited by	Ursula Elles; Marie Anne Gerhardt;
Music by	Gottfried Hüngsberg
Distributed by	Janus Films
Release date	1973 (ARD)
Running time	204 minutes; (I: 101 / II: 103)
Country	West Germany
Language	German

World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries. It was based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye. An adaptation of the Fassbinder version was presented as the play World of Wires, directed by Jay Scheib, in 2012.

Its focus is not on action, but on sophistic and philosophic aspects of the human mind, simulation, and the role of scientific research. A movie based on the same novel titled The Thirteenth Floor starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999.

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