Welt Am Draht - World On A Wire (1973) (English Subtitles)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
Plot: The Institute for Cybernetics and Futurology's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with more than 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulation.
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fleshing out the 'cyberpunk' genre tag/page a bit in near future:
will have some cyberpunk-y and -ish, suffixpunk and adjacent stuff thrown in here and there too
just fyi
