WHO AM I - NO SYSTEM IS SAFE

Feature Film// 105 minutes// Germany// 2014

Director Baran bo Odar// CAST Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Hannah Herzsprung, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Benjamin is a nobody, an outsider. This changes when he meets the charismatic Max. The two of them couldn't be more different, but they share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max's friends, impulsive Stephan and paranoid Paul, they form the subversive hacker group CLAY (CLOWNS LAUGHING AT YOU). CLAY provokes with hilarious hacks and has the finger on the pulse of a while generation. For the first timein his life Benjamin has a feeling of belonging and even the beautiful Marie starts to notice him. What started out as fun soon turns serious, when Benjamin and CLAY are suddenly investigated by the German Secret Service and Europol. With Hanne Lindberg, the leading Europol cybercrime investigator, at their heels, Benjamin starts to realize that he is no longer a nobody, but one of the most wanted hackers of the world. 

 

Baran bo Odar

Baran bo Odar, born in Switzerland in 1978, studied Directing at the university of Television & Film Munich (HFF). He worked on several commercials, music videos and award-winning short films. His feature debut The Silince (2010) premiered at the Piazza Grande in Locarno and made him to one of Variety's Ten Directors to Watch in 2011. Who am I. Currently he is in pre-production for the action thriller Sleepless Night starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan.