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6:00 PM
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (Director: Baran bo Odar)
Film|FRIDAY FILMS @GOETHE
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Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Auditorium
- Language German with English subtitles
- Price Free admission
Are you interested in Germany and German culture? Are you looking for an opportunity to improve your German language skills? Do you enjoy German films? Then this is your event!
Every third Friday of the month, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco presents recent German films ranging from small, independent productions to box office hits. All screenings are in German with English
subtitles. Admission is free!
PLOT:
The title gives away the film’s two main themes: The search for one’s own identity and the vulnerability of an electronically interconnected world. Playing with one’s identity is deeply rooted in the hacker scene. Hackers wear digital masks and form alliances and start battles, without knowing who their allies or their foes actually are.
Take Benjamin. He’s invisible. A nobody. Or, according to the language of binary code: A zero among ones. But this changes abruptly when he suddenly meets the charismatic Max. On the outside, they couldn’t be more different, but they share a common interest: hacking into other people’s computers and closed networks.
In order to become part of the hacker scene elite, the group manages to hack into the server of the German Federal Intelligence Service. This, however, puts them in extreme danger. Through this action, the hackers find themselves on Europol’s most wanted list and they also manage to infuriate the Friends; A hacker troop enmeshed in organised crime. Hunted down by the cybercrime investigator Hanne Lindberg, Benjamin is no longer a nobody. He’s one of the most wanted hackers in the world.
(Germany, 2014, 106 min.)
REVIEW:
It’s been a long time since German cinema produced a film as confident as the hacker thriller WHO AM I – NO SYSTEM IS SAFE.
(SPIEGEL ONLINE)
DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS:
German Film Award 2015 for Best Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Sound; Bavarian Film Award 2014 for Best Direction
Every third Friday of the month, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco presents recent German films ranging from small, independent productions to box office hits. All screenings are in German with English
subtitles. Admission is free!
PLOT:
The title gives away the film’s two main themes: The search for one’s own identity and the vulnerability of an electronically interconnected world. Playing with one’s identity is deeply rooted in the hacker scene. Hackers wear digital masks and form alliances and start battles, without knowing who their allies or their foes actually are.
Take Benjamin. He’s invisible. A nobody. Or, according to the language of binary code: A zero among ones. But this changes abruptly when he suddenly meets the charismatic Max. On the outside, they couldn’t be more different, but they share a common interest: hacking into other people’s computers and closed networks.
In order to become part of the hacker scene elite, the group manages to hack into the server of the German Federal Intelligence Service. This, however, puts them in extreme danger. Through this action, the hackers find themselves on Europol’s most wanted list and they also manage to infuriate the Friends; A hacker troop enmeshed in organised crime. Hunted down by the cybercrime investigator Hanne Lindberg, Benjamin is no longer a nobody. He’s one of the most wanted hackers in the world.
(Germany, 2014, 106 min.)
REVIEW:
It’s been a long time since German cinema produced a film as confident as the hacker thriller WHO AM I – NO SYSTEM IS SAFE.
(SPIEGEL ONLINE)
DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS:
German Film Award 2015 for Best Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Sound; Bavarian Film Award 2014 for Best Direction
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Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Auditorium
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