23 (1999)

The movies 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 RA Wilsons Illuminatus but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers Pepe one of Karls rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB