Virtual Passé is a science fiction film, German, American, left in 1999 and carried out by Josef Rusnak.

Synopsis

Data processing specialist of foreground to the head of a company working with the creation of virtual universes, Hannon Fuller conceived a program simulating the Années 1930 of his youth and connects time to it to other to evolve/move there. During one of its immersions inside simulation, it leaves bound for its Douglas associate a message testifying to terrible discovered. Once disconnected, of return in the real-world, it goes in a bar to contact Douglas, but is assassinated at the time when it telephones to him. The police force quickly suspects Douglas of the murder of the old scientist. To include/understand what occurred, the hero will have to immerse itself in his turn in the virtual world. But here are that emerges in an unexpected way Jane Fuller, which is presented in the form of a girl of the assassinated scientist, and ready to take the head of the company to dissolve it…

Data sheet

• French Title: virtual Past
• original Title: The Thirteenth Floor
• Québécois Title: the thirteenth stage
• Realization: Josef Rusnak
• Production: Roland Emmerich
• Scenario: Josef Rusnak and Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez according to the novel Simulacron 3 of Daniel F. Galouye
• Comings out date:
• the United States: May 28th, 1999
• France: August 18th, 1999
• Belgium: September 1st, 1999
• Country of origin: the United States
• Kind: Science fiction
• Lasted: 97 minutes

Distribution

• Craig Bierko : Douglas Hall/John Ferguson/David
• Armin Mueller-Stahl: Hannon Fuller/Grierson
• Gretchen Mol: Jane Fuller/Natasha Molinaro
• Vincent D' Onofrio: Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton
• Refusals Haysbert: Inspector Larry McBain
• Steven Schub: Inspector Zev Bernstein
• Jeremy Roberts: Tom Jones
• Rif Hutton: Joe
• Leon Rippy: the lawyer of Jane
• Janet MacLachlan: Ellen

Around film

The topic of this film is drawn from the novel Simulacron 3 of Daniel F. Galouye, with some adaptations making it possible to better differentiate with the screen the “real” world (or at least it is believed) from the “simulated” world: the second, contemporary of the first in the book, is located one half-century earlier in film, and affected voluntarily of light a dominant sepia.

External bonds

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