23 (1998) on Netflix
In 1980s Germany, orphaned Karl Koch buys a home computer to chase conspiracy theories. At a Chaos Computer Club meeting he meets David, and their hacking draws an acquaintance toward the KGB.
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Plot summary
Based on real events in Cold War Germany, 23 follows Karl Koch, nineteen and orphaned, who sees the world around him as threatening and chaotic. Reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy, he starts digging into who holds political and economic power, and sees signs of a worldwide conspiracy, a search bound up with his fixation on the number 23. He spends his inheritance on a flat and a home computer. At a Chaos Computer Club meeting he gets to know David, a student, and together they hack into the global data network while it is still in its early stages. Their belief in social justice leads them toward espionage, and Pepe, one of Karl's criminal acquaintances, sees money in computer cracking and sets off for East Berlin to reach the KGB.
Cast
- Arnulf Schumacheras Seybert
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 23 (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Witnesses to the real-life events behind 23 vocally disputed the film's accuracy, and director Schmid later co-authored a book about the making of the film and the differences between it and what actually happened.
SPOILER
23 tells the story of the young German hacker Karl Koch, who died on 23 May 1989 in what was presumed to be a suicide.
