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Gruschel mich! Die studiVZ-Story

70 %|Feb 5, 2025|Documentary, History, TV Movie

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?

Featured Crew

Fritz Lüders
Director
Fritz Lüders
Writer
Vincent Brügel
Director of Photography
Tom Claudon
Director of Photography
Carsten Friedrich
Director of Photography
Simon Hückstädt
Director of Photography
Kim Kristin Mauch
Director of Photography
Sören Meyer
Director of Photography

Cast

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Ehssan Dariani
Self - Interviewee
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Dario Suter
Self - Interviewee
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Michael Brehm
Self - Interviewee
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Agneta Binninger
Self - Interviewee
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Argang Ghadiri
Self - Interviewee
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Zora Hocke-Bolte
Self - Interviewee
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Martin Grosse
Self - Interviewee
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Robert Schneider
Self - Interviewee
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Christian Stöcker
Self - Interviewee
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Peter Schaar
Self - Interviewee
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Harald Schmidt
Self (archive footage)
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Leyla Trebbien
Self - Narrator (voice)