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| Directed by | Baran bo Odar |
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| Written by | Baran bo Odar |
| Starring | Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek |
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Running time
| 105 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German, English |
It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] The film was shot in Berlin and Rostock.[2]
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Submitted Hacker WhoAmI has risen to the police, but only wants to speak with suspended from duty Europol investigator Hanne Lindberg. He begins to tell her his childhood story. Lindberg says, these details are uninteresting, but WhoAmI says, every detail is important to understand how it had come to the current situation. Then he leads to her a magic trick with sugar cubes: He takes four sugar cubes in his right hand, then outputs it to the left, making them into a fist. When he opens his fist, only one sugar cube in it. This he give back to the right hand and makes it into a fist. When he opens the fist, there are four sugar cubes again. For this purpose, he says, is like hacking spells at both it is a question as to deceive the other, and leads his story continues. This conversation of WhoAmI with Lindberg in an interrogation cell forms the plot of the film, while telling of WhoAmI alias Benjamin Engel story is shown in flashback.
The inconspicuous Benjamin had an embossed of severe trauma childhood. His father left his mother before birth of Benjamin, and his mother has, as Benjamin was 8, committed suicide. Since Benjamin lived with his grandmother, to whom he has a very strong relationship. She keeps in a box three empty cartridge cases from Russia as a reminder of their fallen there during WWII father. Benjamin's shyness and the feeling of being in the real world of no significance, brought him on the way to the virtual world and also to organized, small hacking. His great role model in the darknet was the star-Hacker MRX, from the Benjamin learned three principles:
No system is safe (no system is safe, the subtitle of the film)
Aim for the impossible (brace for the impossible)
Have fun in cyberspace and meatspace (free: Limit your fun not only in the virtual world)
Upon extension of Pizza Benjamin sees his flock Marie from school again, the law student now. Casually and intentionell she mentioned that she needed for her exam the forthcoming issues of the servers of the University. Benjamin takes care of their problem and hacks into the university computer. He is, however, caught and sentenced to social work. Here he meets the charismatic Max, who, when he learns of Benjamin's skills in computer technology area, is at once eager for cooperation. At a party in a strange house is Max Benjamin before his two friends Stephen and Paul, who ask him to put his skills to the test. Benjamin hacking into the power supply and switched on for a short time the whole street energized.
Shortly afterwards, Benjamin has dementia ill grandmother in a nursing home, making their house the four-member group of hackers can be used from now on as the headquarters. When searching for a name for the group Benjamin brings the name proposal CLAY an abbreviation for clowns laughing at you, and based on the widespread Hacker area masking, which finds general approval.
Driven by Max's search for recognition in darknet the group is increasingly leading attacks with socio-critical designs in complex companies and organizations - so fall among others, the right-wing party and an NBD unnamed big drugmaker CLAY victim. Nevertheless, the highly respected hacker MRX seems to see the Darknet for their actions no attention or admiration, but also makes them a target of Cybergespötts. Max into a rage and calls for an attack that exceeds their previous limits several times, prompting Benjamin to as unhackable applicable German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) selects as their next victim. The action succeeds flawlessly through the division of labor of the group, however, still leaves Benjamin go with highly confidential employee information along with the regular order.
As Max kisses at a conference organized because of the success party on drugs Marie, Benjamin turns disappointed and furious from him, since he merely as Max 'tool sees himself. Without the knowledge or consent of the other members CLAY-it passes the stolen employee information in the Darknet to MRX. One day later, the hacker Krypton, a member of the prominent hacker group Friends (proper spelling in Leetspeak: FR13NDS), behind the Russian Cyber Mafia infected, murdered in the woods outside the city found. It turns out then that Krypton was a mole who has collaborated with the BND. His death is attributed to the hacker attack on the BND, and thus also to which professing to this group CLAY. This invokes the Danish Europol investigator Hanne Lindberg on the scene who tried unsuccessfully for three years to lay the FR13NDS the craft. To whitewash Clays name and go underground again, looks the part if its debt to Krypton death shocked Benjamin only the possibility of the police and the MRX FR13NDS deliver.
MRX deceptive during which before his admiration for the BND attack and passes CLAY an order for the largest hacker attack of their previous existence, an attack on Europol, for which they receive from MRX a code key and a computer Trojans for Systeminfiltrierung. During the transfer they can be located by the police and almost caught. Benjamin Followers Lindberg and can barely hide. After her re-Failure Lindberg is suspended and replaced by another investigator. To cover their tracks, CLAY burn the house of Benjamin's grandmother.
After failed attempts to get into the Europol headquarters, with Max a hand injury incurs by a nail, it creates Benjamin actually an audacious trick, a so-called "evil twin", a malicious wireless access point to smuggle into the system and thus to obtain remote access. About a specially designed computer Trojan that is hidden in the issued by MRX Trojans, Benjamin, Max, Stephan and Paul want to turn access to MRXS computer and thus its identity. As Benjamin MRX want to hand over the stolen data system, it appears that this has seen through their modified Trojans mechanism. The them passed CodeKey also acted as IP transmitter spying Benjamin. Two armed FR13NDS members follow him into the underground shafts where he can escape them. When he returns to the hotel room, the CLAY inhabit after the destruction of its headquarters, he finds Max, Stephan and Paul on shot.
So who told in flashback story Benjamin has arrived in the presence of the background story. Benjamin sets three Russian bullet casings on the table and says they are all dead, and he just wants to be only Benjamin again. He offers Lindberg to deliver her MRX, whereby they would be rehabilitated when it included in the witness protection program of Europol. Although her colleague from the BKA pointing to large holes in the story told, Lindberg agrees. Benjamin's plan is MRX to attack in his pride, which is why he created a second pseudonym under MRXS name in darknet and this attracts the displeasure of other hackers, because he claims to be the true MRX and to whose treachery Krypton confesses. At the same time he paid the true MRX also with a IP transmitter and so revealed his true identity. MRX, who lives in New York, is arrested by the police and Lindberg is rehabilitated.
Lindberg noticed that Benjamin himself had the wound of the nail, which he attributed to Max. She also remembers the words of her-mate, Benjamin history have large holes. Therefore, it is alone to investigate. She finds the supposedly burned house unharmed. During a visit by Benjamin grandmother she finds the box of three cartridge cases before empty. Those were probably the bullet casings that Benjamin had submitted as evidence of the death of his friends. From three corpses in a hotel room the police is not known. Marie says, have not met Benjamin since his school days. From the psychiatrist of Benjamin's mother she learns that Benjamin might have inherited the predisposition to multiple personality, which is why Max, Stephan and Paul only facets of himself and he had CLAY be alone.
Lindberg, the empty cartridge box his grandmother before Benjamin and told him that he was alone CLAY and the others were products of his imagination. He himself was Max, Stephen and Paul. With a mental disorder it is not approved for the Witness Protection Program. Benjamin responded disappointed and desperate because he is afraid of being persecuted and killed by FR13NDS. As Lindberg will then bring him before a judge, she gives him five minutes to hack into the computer program for the witness protection program. There Benjamin sets to a new identity. Then Lindberg drove away with him and leaves him free, but he should promise her that he stops with the hoes. Benjamin says, "No more magic tricks", draws the four sugar cubes out of his pocket and puts it on the dashboard. Lindberg wants to know how the magic trick with the four sugar cubes goes, and Benjamin explains her. Then he leaves the car. As Lindberg put the sugar cube in her pocket, she notices that she has been deceived again. She looks after Benjamin, but he's already gone.
Benjamin is with blond hair dyed on a ship in the direction of Copenhagen, where he was previously "burn" with Marie, and considered his newly created "birth certificate". Suddenly, next to him Max, Stephan, Paul and Marie on. Benjamin notes, now they have managed to become "invisible" again. In flashbacks he dissolves the double twist: When he came back to the hotel room, he told the others that MRX know his identity and he had been persecuted by the FR13NDS. Max has the idea with Hanne Lindberg and Marie can be confirmed by their law knowledge that the mentally ill were excluded from the witness protection program. Finally Max Benjamin adds to the nail wound. Aboard Max says approvingly that was the biggest social engineering project of all time. Paul expresses concern, what happens when it Lindberg checked yet. Benjamin replied that she had checked it, but they got what they wanted.
Characters
Clay (clowns laughing at you) is an organization whose goal is to society to show something in order to cause good. Some of their goals are the stock exchange or major pharmaceutical companies. However, the members increased the insolence to head when they get the model MRX no recognition of their deeds.
Benjamin Engel
Benjamin is a shy boy. He works at night at a pizza delivery service. When he was sentenced after a failed attack on a university server to community service and thereby get to know Max, he becomes a founding member of Clay. His motive is next to his traumatic childhood, which was marked by the death of his mother, his position in society. Benjamin's character will change only slowly, and it remains shy and reserved. Another setback he has experience, as his grandmother has to be sent to a nursing home because of dementia. In return, the same flowers on Clay, because the now empty house can be used by fours as headquarters.
Max
Max is the complete opposite of Benjamin, because unlike this, he is confident. He knows something about social engineering and thus also of the manipulation of others. This is evident in his audacity and his advice, which he passes on to Benjamin: ". The man is in good faith and conflict-shy" "The greatest vulnerability is the human being", "Audacity wins" and Benjamin noted early that behind this scam puts nothing as a Skriptkiddie, but he keeps it for himself. However, Max has the idea to the final coup, the deception of Europol.
Paul
Paul is the hardware expert from Clay. He remains throughout the film a very critical character. This is reflected in the fact that he initially doubts Benjamin and also the threshold crossing (car "steal") participates only after Max 'persuasion on the jaunt.
Stephan
Stephan is the software expert from Clay. He has his own, crazy personality and is represented as very open to the outside world.
Friends
("FR13NDS" Leetspeak) the most sought after hackers grouping Until appearance of the Clay "Friends" were. The "FR13NDS" were also target the actual investigation by Europol, which have been led by Hanne
MRX
MRX is the leader of "FR13NDS". Known as a hacker he was, inter alia, by attacks on social networks. Generally he enjoys in the Deep Web a high reputation and is also the model for Max and Benjamin. At first he was not impressed by the hacker group Clay and mocked them downright. However, he pretends to have his opinion after the attack on the BND, as Benjamin did provide him with staff lists changed.
Krypton
Krypton is one of the members of the "FR13NDS". Only later it becomes clear that he is an undercover agent of the BND. This comes out as Benjamin unwittingly betrays him to MRX, which then leads to his immediate death.
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