WoW – World on a Wirecard

Following his spectacular installation “Respublika”, rising Polish star Łukasz Twarkowski creates another of his masterful dramatic worlds poised between film and stage.

Working with the playwright Anka Herbut, Twarkowski tackles the bizarre story of the collapse of the Munich financial service provider Wirecard. The biggest financial scandal in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany revolves around virtual billions in turnover and the seductive fantasy of a world-class German tech giant which ultimately sought to play in the Champions League of Silicon Valley. In the 1970s, Fassbinder already foresaw a “world on the wire” in which people were no longer able to recognise the boundary between the virtual and the real. Fifty years later, artificial intelligence increasingly determines every area of our lives and Fassbinder’s dystopian vision of the future is gaining more and more relevance in compelling ways.

Łukasz Twarkowski and his team combine two subjects both closely linked to Munich. Based on Fassbinder’s philosophical toying with an idea, they condense the thriller about Wirecard into an intriguing performance about the limits of our perception.

A contemporary dystopian financial thriller.