Film

Gruschel mich! Die studiVZ-Story

2025 · 1h · 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?

Ehssan Dariani

Self - Interviewee

Dario Suter

Self - Interviewee

Michael Brehm

Self - Interviewee

Agneta Binninger

Self - Interviewee

Argang Ghadiri

Self - Interviewee

Zora Hocke-Bolte

Self - Interviewee

Martin Grosse

Self - Interviewee

Robert Schneider

Self - Interviewee

Christian Stöcker

Self - Interviewee

Peter Schaar

Self - Interviewee

Bridgee Melling

Self

Ulf Fritzmann

Self

Harald Schmidt

Self (archive footage)

Leyla Trebbien

Self - Narrator (voice)

• Fritz LüdersDirector · Writer
• Vincent BrügelDirector of Photography
• Tom ClaudonDirector of Photography
• Carsten FriedrichDirector of Photography
• Simon HückstädtDirector of Photography
• Kim Kristin MauchDirector of Photography
• Sören MeyerDirector of Photography
• Samir SaadDirector of Photography
• Merlin SchraderDirector of Photography
• Christian SzrammekDirector of Photography

Release date

February 5, 2025

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h

Genres

Documentary, History, TV Movie