Who Am I – No System Is Safe
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| Directed by | Baran bo Odar |
| Written by | Baran bo Odar |
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Tom Schilling Elyas M'Barek |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German English |
Who Am I (German: Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher; English: "Who Am I: No System Is Safe") is a 2014 German techno-thriller film directed by Baran bo Odar. It is centered on a computer hacker group in Berlin that gears towards global fame. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was shot in Berlin and .
Benjamin Engel, a hacker from Berlin, is sitting in an interrogation room. The officer incharge tells Hanne Lindberg, the Head of the Cyber Division of Europol that Benjamin asked for her, to do the interrogation and that he has information regarding FRI3NDS, a notorious hacking group of four members connected to the Russian cyber mafia, and MRX, an infamous hacker known around Darknet, and tells her that he could give them both to Hanne if he listens to her. Having no choice, Hanne sits down.
Benjamin recalls to Hanne how he is like a superhero, having all the right conditions: like many heroes, he too has no parents; he never met his father who abandoned the family when Benjamin was born, and his mother had committed suicide when he was 8. He lives alone with his ailing grandmother. He regards his "superpower" as invisibility, as he was never noticed by most people during his childhood due to him being socially awkward. He says having spent a lot of time in front of a computer he learnt programming and hacked his first system when he was 14. Thou he felt like a loser in real life, he felt a sense of belonging on the Internet. Spending most of his time on Darknet he met his hacking hero, MRX, whose identity no one knows and who can hack into any system. Benjamin aspires to be like him.
However, as he was unable to attend university, he worked as a pizza delivery boy to pay the bills. He tells Hanne that, one night while he delivered pizzas to a group of students, he saw Marie, a girl with whom he was in love with since his school days. Hearing her having trouble with exams, he decided to help her and be a 'superhero'. He went to the University, hacked into its servers to download the exam questions, but he was caught by a security guard and arrested. Having no prior criminal record, he was forced to perform community service as a punishment.
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