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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.
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- Language
- Russian
- computer
- hacker
- court case
- german democratic republic
- spy
- cold war
- paranoia
- soviet union
- cocaine
- delusion
- psychology
- kgb
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical14 Jan 1999
FranceFR
- Theatrical7 Jul 1999
GermanyDE
- Theatrical122 Jul 1998
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23 was released on 2 July 1998.
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