Nirvana is a 1997 Italian science fiction film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. The film stars Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini and Stefania Rocca. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of a virtual-reality game designer, Jimi , who finds out that the main character of his game, Solo , has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation to eliminate its existence, Jimi sets out to erase the game from his employer's server before it's commercially released, and thus spare Solo further... suffering. Jimi feels desperate because his wife Lisa left him. He starts to search for her as he tries to delete Solo from the game. These two paths of his life complement in the story throughout the whole film. By the end, Jimi hacks into one of the company's servers. This hack is in the world of virtual reality interpreted as encounters with persons from Jimi's life. That is the way the network defends itself.
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| Release date: | 1997 |
| Directed by: | Gabriele Salvatores |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Maurizio Totti, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Rita Rusic |
| Editor: | Massimo Fiocchi |
| Music by: | Federico De Robertis, Mauro Pagani, Carlo Rustichelli |
| Cinematography: | Italo Petriccione |
| Screenplay by: | Gabriele Salvatores, Pino Cacucci, Gloria Corica |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller |