23, original German title: 23 – Nichts ist so wie es scheint (“Nothing is what it seems”) is a 1998 German drama thriller film about a young hacker Karl Koch, who died on 23 May 1989, a presumed suicide.
It was directed by Hans-Christian Schmid, who also participated in screenwriting. The title derives from the protagonist’s obsession with the number 23, a phenomenon often described as apophenia.
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