Gruschel mich! Die studiVZ-Story (2025)
A crazy Facebook deal and trouble over the "Gruscheln": studiVZ rose at an incredible pace in the 2000s to become Germany's largest social network. This drove its US competitor Facebook crazy. So much so that studiVZ founder Ehssan Dariani and his co-founders met Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley and were presented with an offer that would go down in history. But a rise in ecstasy was followed by a dramatic fall - of the network and its most important founder. The documentary is about scandals, personal stories of loss and the question: did the studiVZ founders just steal everything?
Director: Fritz Lüders
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Ehssan Dariani as Self - Interviewee |
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Dario Suter as Self - Interviewee |
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Michael Brehm as Self - Interviewee |
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Agneta Binninger as Self - Interviewee |
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Argang Ghadiri as Self - Interviewee |
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Zora Hocke-Bolte as Self - Interviewee |
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Martin Grosse as Self - Interviewee |
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Robert Schneider as Self - Interviewee |
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Christian Stöcker as Self - Interviewee |
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Peter Schaar as Self - Interviewee |
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Bridgee Melling as Self |
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Ulf Fritzmann as Self |
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Harald Schmidt as Self (archive footage) |
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Leyla Trebbien as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Fritz Lüders | Director |
| Writing | Fritz Lüders | Writer |
| Camera | Vincent Brügel | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Tom Claudon | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Carsten Friedrich | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Simon Hückstädt | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Kim Kristin Mauch | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Sören Meyer | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Samir Saad | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Merlin Schrader | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Christian Szrammek | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Joshua Zonnekein | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Hannes Grigull | Editor |
| Editing | Markus Ortmanns | Editor |
| Editing | Alexander Liu | Editor |
| Sound | Sascha Kaiser | Sound |
| Sound | Tom Claudon | Sound |
| Sound | Schoman Djouma | Sound |
| Sound | Oliver Lumpe | Sound |
| Sound | Simon Hückstädt | Sound |
| Sound | Felix Wenzel | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Art | Thorben Korpel | Graphic Designer |
| Editing | Christoph Fobbe | Color Grading |
| Crew | Inga Mathwig | Commissioning Editor |
