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Who Am I

Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher

Baran bo Odar · Germany · 2014

Benjamin, a socially invisible Berlin programmer with a gift for code, falls in with a charismatic trio of misfit hackers and forms the collective CLAY. Their underground stunts escalate fast, rocketing the four of them from internet pranks to global cybercrime stardom — until everything spirals into a different kind of game entirely. A high-velocity German hacker thriller, often compared to Fight Club, with a twisty, paranoid streak. Made by the team behind the future Netflix series Dark.

About

Baran bo Odar's Who Am I – No System Is Safe (German: Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher) won the German Film Award (Lola) for Best Editing at the 2015 ceremony and was nominated across multiple Lola categories. The film opened in Germany in September 2014 and grossed over six million euros at the domestic box office, becoming one of the most commercially successful German thrillers of its year.

The film is the second feature by Baran bo Odar — the German-Russian director whose later collaboration with co-writer Jantje Friese on the Netflix series Dark (2017–2020) and 1899 (2022) made him one of the most internationally exported German showrunners of his generation. Who Am I is a direct precursor to the Friese-Odar partnership; Friese co-wrote the screenplay for this earlier feature and would write all subsequent Odar projects.

The cast is led by Tom Schilling — one of Germany's most consistent leading actors of the 2010s after his lead role in Oh Boy two years earlier — alongside Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Antoine Monot, Jr., Hannah Herzsprung and Trine Dyrholm. Cinematography is by Nikolaus Summerer. The film engages directly with the real-world hacker collective Anonymous and the historical European hacker culture around the Chaos Computer Club; the film's success contributed substantially to the broader 2010s wave of European hacker-themed scripted television including Mr. Robot, the German Biohackers, and several other genre productions.

Tom Schilling

Tom Schilling

Benjamin

Elyas M'Barek

Elyas M'Barek

Max

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Stephan

Antoine Monot Jr.

Antoine Monot Jr.

Paul

Hannah Herzsprung

Hannah Herzsprung

Marie