Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- computer
- hacker
- court case
- german democratic republic
- spy
- cold war
- paranoia
- soviet union
- cocaine
- delusion
The bill
- Burghart Klaußner — Weber
- Stephan Kampwirth — Jochen Maiwald
- Zbigniew Zamachowski — Sergej
- Peter Fitz — Brückner
- Lilly Marie Tschörtner — Beate
- Arnulf Schumacher — Seybert
- Patrick Joswig — Alex
- Sven Lehmann — Computerverkäufer
- Regine Zimmermann — Pepes Freundin
- Armin Dillenberger — Kellner im Zug
- Oscar Ortega Sánchez — Mr. Minit
- Directed
- Hans-Christian Schmid
- Written
- Hans-Christian Schmid, Michael Gutmann
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 229 ratings
- Studio
- Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion
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