The Billion Dollar Code
2021 · Miniseries · TV-MA · 66 min · ★ 7.9 · 92% critics
In 1990s Berlin, two innovators create a groundbreaking way to explore the world through technology. Years later, they reconnect and take on a major company in a high-stakes patent fight, revisiting old ambitions, setbacks, and the cost of big ideas.
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Streaming on Netflix.
~6 hours to watch · 5 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-10-07
- Network
- Netflix
- Language
- German
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 66 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 92/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 (191 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like true-story-inspired tech drama, startup ambition, and courtroom stakes with a Berlin backdrop; Not for you if you want nuance over clear villains or dislike legal battles like in Babylon Berlin.
Pros: fast bingeable pace; engaging tech history; vivid Berlin atmosphere | Cons: simplistic good-vs-bad; truth vs fiction doubts; familiar underdog beats
Themes
- hacker
- based on true story
- justice
- courtroom
- cybersecurity
- 1990s
Cast & crew
Leonard Scheicher
as Young Carsten Schlüter
Marius Ahrendt
as Young Juri Müller
Mark Waschke
as Carsten Schlüter
Mišel Matičević
as Juri Müller
Lavinia Wilson
as Lea Hauswirth
Seumas F. Sargent
as Eric Spears
- EK
Elias Krischke
as Young CCC Alex
- TA
Tulián Aczél
as DOS
Lukas Loughran
as Brian Andersson
Sabrina Amali
as Young Julia Blaschke
Episodes1 season · 5 episodes
Season 15 episodes
- S1E1Episode 168mNetflix
- S1E2Episode 263mNetflix
- S1E3Episode 359mNetflix
- S1E4Episode 477mNetflix
- S1E5Episode 5