Based on real events, Netflix miniseries “The Billion Dollar Code” – created by Oliver Ziegenbalg and Robert Thalheim, and set to be released exclusively on Netflix on Thursday – shows the German i…
miniseries “The Billion Dollar Code” – created by Oliver Ziegenbalg and Robert Thalheim, and set to be released exclusively on Netflix on Thursday – shows the German inventors of 1994 Terravision and their fight to be acknowledged as creators of theEarth algorithm. In 2014, Berlin-based ART+COM sued Google for patent infringement, claiming that the system bore remarkable similarities to Google Earth.
Going back and forth between the trial, the early days of Silicon Valley and the first wave of the internet revolution in the 1990s, the duo first imagined the story as a feature film, quickly embracing the opportunities offered by a much longer format. “We lived in Berlin during that period. We remember that time – we were there! In stories set in the Wild West, there is always the good side and the bad, but there are also no rules. The strongest make up their own, which is what happened here too,” adds Thalheim.
“Just like in any love relationship, sometimes one is stronger and then it’s the other one’s turn. You just see it transform,” says Thalheim, also mentioning the men behind it all, some of whom – like Axel Schmidt, Pavel Mayer or Gerd Grueneis – attended the Zurich premiere.
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