The movie’s plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson’s “Illuminatus”, but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl’s rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.
Rated PG-13 | Length 99 minutes
Hanns Zischler | Zbigniew Zamachowski | Patrick Joswig | Burghart Klaußner | Stephan Kampwirth | Oscar Ortega Sánchez | August Diehl | Fabian Busch | Dieter Landuris | Jan Gregor Kremp | Peter Fitz | Hedi Kriegeskotte | Regine Zimmermann | Brigitte Janner | Karin Gregorek | Dietrich Brüggemann | Lilly Marie Tschörtner | Arnulf Schumacher | Sven Lehmann | Armin Dillenberger | Hans-Dietrich Genscher | Josef Tratnik | Robert Anton Wilson | Muammar Gaddafi | Olof Palme | Katrin Klein | Richard von Weizsäcker | Alexandra Hartmann | Claudia Boneberg | George Shultz | Tom Keidel | Jörg Schmitz | Christian Wolff | Johann Claussen | Jan-Gregor Kampwirth | Nina Bühler | Katja Klauss | Tirzah Haase | Beate Himmerlstoss | Peter Veith | Jessica Lohmann | Anna-Maija Tuuliainen | Igor Davidovski