Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Script: Fritz Müller-Scherz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Photography: Michael Ballhaus, Ullrich Prinz
Editor: Marie Anne Gerhardt
Music: Gottfried Hüngsberg
Sound: Ernst Thomas
Production Design: Kurt Raab, Horst Giese, Walter Koch
Principal Cast: Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Adrian Hoven, Ivan Desny, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Günter Lamprecht, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck
Producers: Peter Märthesheimer, Alexander Wesemann
Production Manager: Fred Ilgner
Production: WDR
Fassbinder’s only science fiction film (based on a novel by Daniel Galouye) anticipated the themes of "Blade Runner" and the "Matrix" trilogy: in the future a full-scale virtual alternate reality can be created with the help of computers. How can people who presume they live in the real reality tell whether they are in fact artificial projections? As is to be expected of him, Fassbinder does not turn this idea into an action movie laden with special effects, but into a psycho-drama about a man in search of himself. The futuristic ‘70s set design and the virtuosity of Michael Ballhaus’ cinematography nonetheless lend this film spectacular looks.