23: The movies plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late nineteen eighty 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. 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.
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