August Diehl<\/a> has won the award \u201eDeutscher Filmpreis\u201c with this movie.<\/p>\nThe action of the movie takes place in the 1980’s. It was the time of the Friedensbewegung (peace movement), demonstrations against nuclear power and the final phase of the cold war. By then, Karl Koch is 19 years old and feels threatened by a false world. Inspired by Hagbard Celine, a Romanfigur (literary character) out of Robert Shea’s and Robert Anton Wilson’s \u201eIlluminatus!\u201c, he\u00b4s starting to look for the backgrounds of political and economical Macht (power) and soon discovers signs (the number 23 for example) that make him believe in a world wide Versch\u00f6rung (conspiracy).<\/p>\n
He gets to know a student called David at a congress of the famous \u201eChaos Computer Club\u201c.\u00a0 Together they achieve to hack into Datennetzwerke (data networks) with a Commodore PC and an acoustic coupler. Driven by their strong sense of justice they become Spione (spies) for the russian KGB. Pressure is getting stronger in doing even better hacks, so Karl slides into a heavy addiction of cocain that makes him work withouth sleeping for days. Dreams and reality are starting to mix and Karl suffers of Wahnvorstellungen (hallucinations). The reliance to David is breaking and so Karl remains on his own.<\/p>\n
After a while, a journalist called Jochen Maiwald wants to do a reportage about hacking and so he contacts Karl. Together they hack a Atomkraftwerk (nuclear power plant) in J\u00fclich while cameras are rolling. Shortly after this, Tschernobyl explodes and the federal police is alerted as well. Karl breaks down and finds himself in a hospital. Later on he\u00b4s living in an institution to fight his drug addiction. But at the same time his Kontaktm\u00e4nner (account executives) of the KGB are threatening him.<\/p>\n
Karl bears witness to the Verfassungsschutz (protection of the constitution) and is accepted to the witness-protection program. The whole story gets public and his account executives are being arrested.<\/p>\n
On May 23rd 1989, Karl doesn’t return from a vehicle journey. One week later, his charred body was found in a forrest near Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n
His death remains ungekl\u00e4rt (unexplained) until today.<\/p>\n
Here\u00b4s some vocabulary:<\/strong><\/p>\nbekannt \u2013 famous
\ndie Friedensbewegung \u2013 peace movement
\ndie Romanfigur \u2013 literary character
\ndie Macht \u2013 power
\ndie Verschw\u00f6rung \u2013 conspiracy
\ndas Datennetzwerk \u2013 data network
\nder Spion \u2013 spy
\ndie Wahnvorstellung \u2013 hallucination
\ndas Atomkraftwerk \u2013 nuclear power plant
\nder Kontaktmann \u2013 account executive
\nder Verfassungsschutz \u2013 protection of the constitution
\nungekl\u00e4rt \u2013 unexplained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome back to another German movie that I want to introduce to you. This one might be not as bekannt (famous) as \u201eDas Boot\u201c, but nevertheless it is one of my favourite ones from Germany. It is called \u201e23 \u2013 Nichts ist so wie es scheint\u201c and it could be translated as \u201e23 – Nothing…<\/p>\n
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