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.
August Diehl
Fabian Busch
Dieter Landuris
Jan-Gregor Kremp
Burghart Klaußner
Stephan Kampwirth
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Peter Fitz
Lilly Marie Tschörtner
Arnulf Schumacher
Patrick Joswig
Sven Lehmann
Regine Zimmermann
Armin Dillenberger
Oscar Ortega Sánchez
Brigitte Janner
Hedi Kriegeskotte
Alexandra Hartmann
Claudia Boneberg
Hanns Zischler
Katrin Klein
Karin Gregorek
Tom Keidel
Jörg Schmitz
Christian Wolff
Johann Claussen
Jan-Gregor Kampwirth
Nina Bühler
Katja Klauss
Robert Anton Wilson
Tirzah Haase
Beate Himmerlstoss
Josef Tratnik
Peter Veith
Jessica Lohmann
Anna-Maija Tuuliainen
Igor Davidovski
Dietrich Brüggemann
Muammar Gaddafi
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
George Shultz
Richard von Weizsäcker
Olof Palme