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23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint

Germany

1998

99 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, Russian, German

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Jakob Claussen, Thomas Wöbke

SCR Hans-Christian Schmid, Michael Gutmann, Michael Dierking

CAST August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan Gregor Kremp, Stephan Kampwirth, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Peter Fitz, Burghart Klaußner

MUSIC Enjott Schneider

Locarno (Competition): Don Quixote Award - Special Mention

Synopsis

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. –IMDb

Director

Hans-Christian Schmid

Hans-Christian Schmid was born 1965 in the Bavarian city of Altötting, a famous place of pilgrimage. Nevertheless, Schmid was not brought up in a ultra-catholic fashion as some of his films might suggest. Instead, he grew up in a liberal home, attended a high school that was regarded politically left, went to demonstrations for peace instead of Sunday service, and was an active member of the Green party.

From 1985 to 1992, Schmid studied documentary film making at Munich’s Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF), where he filmed his debut movie Sekt oder Selters (1989) about people addicted to slot machines as well as two more short films. In his graduation film Die Mechanik des Wunders (1992), he dealt with the organized religiousness of his home town for the first time. After graduating from HFF, Schmid got a scholarship from Drehbuchwerkstatt München to study screenplay writing at University of Southern California in Los Angeles.— filmportal.de