Zero (2021)
Berlin in the near future: A secret meeting takes place between a board member of the dominant internet company "Freemee" and members of the government. Camera drones film it unauthorized and document the events live on the Internet. The anonymous net activist group "Zero" is publicly committed to the media attack. Online journalist Cynthia Bonsant, widow and single mother, has been asked to do background research on "Zero" by the head of the online magazine "Daily". The group is classified as a terrorist organization, but according to their own statements they fight the excessive influence on the population through the so-called "Act App", which contoles the lives of users. When a friend of Cynthia's 17-year-old daughter Viola is shot dead in a hunt for a criminal, "Zero" contacts her and tries to recruit her for their own purposes. In the meantime, Cynthia has bad suspicions during her research, because soon a new version of the app will be released that will change everything.
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank
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Heike Makatsch as Cynthia Bonsant |
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Sabin Tambrea as Carl Montik |
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Axel Stein as Tony Brenner |
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Matthias Weidenhöfer as Geoff Pesceur |
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Luise Emilie Tschersich as Viola Bonsant |
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Pit Bukowski as Zero |
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Fabian Passamonte as Philipp Bonsant |
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Meriel Hinsching as Janine |
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Adrian Grünewald as Eddie |
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Doguhan Kabadayi as Mesut |
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Stephan Schäfer as Benjamin Eltrich |
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Sarah Hostettler as Punkerin |
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Philipp Droste as Jens Lienhard |
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Frank Steffing as Mr. Schneider |
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Mona Pirzad as Fatima |
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Yuna Bennett as Engelchen |
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Matilda Lindberg as Eleven-Year-Old Viola |
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Theres Eglinski as Online Journalist |
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Jens Grunwald as HN Security |
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Annie Kathleen Trettin as Secretary |
| Directing | Jochen Alexander Freydank | Director |
| Writing | Marc Elsberg | Novel |
| Art | Tom Hornig | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Heike Hütt | Costume Design |
| Sound | Andreas Prescher | Sound |
| Writing | Johannes W. Betz | Teleplay |
| Production | Stefany Pohlmann | Casting Director |
| Production | Nicole Swidler | Producer |
| Production | Fritjof Hohagen | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Katja Reich | Makeup Designer |
| Editing | Ollie Lanvermann | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Frank Kaminski | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Camera | Jakob Wiessner | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hans Schumann | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Patrick Popow | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Markus Hollinger | Makeup Designer |
| Sound | Dominik Raetz | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Oliver Wißmann | Line Producer |
| Crew | Götz Schmedes | Commissioning Editor |
| Sound | Ingo Ludwig Frenzel | Original Music Composer |