The World beyond the World
'Thinking machines' and 'people thinking as machines' (super-computerprogrammers who have internalized computerese) are perhaps two of a kind. But clashes with the 'real world' are preprogrammed for these machines of flesh and blood. The film traces humankind's striving to discover itself again in its mechanical creations, from the effort to construct automatons in Switzerland some 200 years ago, to a pinnacle display of the 1980ies achievements: a robot playing Haydn's 'Genesis' at the World Expo in Japan.
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Oliver Herbrich Director · Romy Schumann Editor
First release June 1, 1986 · Produced in Germany · Original title Die Welt jenseits der Welt
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Oliver Herbrich Filmproduktion
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Germany
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Original title
Die Welt jenseits der Welt
Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · June 1, 1986
Premiere · Munich International Filmfestival
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Germany
January 30, 1987 · TV · SWR Fernsehen
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