Ahora mismo creo que es imposible de ver, la están restaurando y la proyectarán en Berlín 2010, luego saldrá en dvd.
"After the successful large-sale project, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ Remastered, which the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation accomplished in tandem with The German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2007, we announce the kick-off for another milestone project for 2010: We will digitize Rainer Werner Fassbinder's two-part movie WORLD ON A WIRE.
Produced by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) for TV in 1973, the work is 205 minutes long. Today, the Fassbinder adaptation of Simulacron-3, US-author Daniel F. Galouye's novel, is considered one of the most important German science-fiction films. Together with screenwriter Fritz Müller-Scherz, RWF transformed the 1964 original into a perfect, multi-layered game of the machinations in an industrialized society such as West Germany. What goes far beyond this is the depiction of a computer-simulated world at a time when the virtual realities of WEB 2.0 were still a mere vision of the future. The congenial cinematography bears the distinctive handwriting of Hollywood cameraman Michael Ballhaus.
At the time, the actors Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Barbara Valentin, Gottfried John, Günter Lamprecht, Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Ivan Desny, Adrian Hoven, as well as Rainer Langhans (and many others) represented a first-rate mix of "young and wild" and "grand old" stars.
In 1974, Fassbinder was awarded the Adolf-Grimme-Preis for WORLD ON A WIRE. Now - 35 years later - the 16mm original reversed positive will be restored and digitized to assure the film's long-term safekeeping.
RWFF president Juliane Lorenz has assumed the overall direction of the ambitious project WORLD ON A WIRE - New Master. Michael Ballhaus will be responsible for the artistic supervision of the digital editing. Annemarie Abel and Frank Graf are in charge of the production management.
The German Federal Cultural Foundation (KSB), the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (mbb) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) will enable the RWFF to once more create a top-quality 2k-master, the basis of the eagerly awaited DVD edition of WORLD ON A WIRE.
The upcoming double jubilee, in 2010, commemorating RWF's 65th birthday and Michael Ballhaus' completion of his 75th year, will be a worthy occasion to see WORLD ON A WIRE again in a premiere at Berlin's 60th International Film Festival."