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Webmaster is a danois film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 28 august 1998 with Lars Bom (Olesen)
Webmaster (1998)
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Add to a movie listWebmaster (original title Skyggen, also known as The Shadow) is a 1998 Danish cyberpunk comedy film.
Directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen, it stars Danish actor Lars Bom as the cerebral, machine-like hacker-turned-webmaster J.B., who performs his job while hanging upside down, wearing virtual reality goggles, his mind busy deep inside cyberspace. Upon witnessing a murder, he teams up with the impulsive, energetic Miauv (Puk Scharbau).
Lars Bom won the Best Actor award at the Italian Fantafestival, where the film also won for Best Special Effects.
The film furthermore won a Silver Grand Prize at the 1999 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, and a Danish Robert Award for Best Production Design.
The movie was financed by the Danish bank "Forstædernes Bank" and the final production cost was not disclosed by neither producers nor the director. When the movie was released in Denmark in 1998 it was met with mixed reviews and was released on VHS, never appearing in Danish movie theaters.
Synopsis
JB est webmaster dans une puissante société de Technopolis. Seules 4 personnes ont accès au réseau qu'il administre. Un jour, un inconnu parvient néanmoins à l'infiltrer et à détourner l'argent qui s'y trouve. JB a 35h pour l'identifier et récupérer l'argent... mais il découvre que la somme a été versée sur son compte et qu'il lui est impossible de la récupérer...Actors
Lars Bom (Olesen)
(J.B.)
Puk Scharbau
(Miauv)
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