''Webmaster'' (original title ''Skyggen'', also known as ''The Shadow'') is a 1998 Danish

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film. Directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen, it stars Danish actor

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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 (

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). The film furthermore won a Silver Grand Prize at the 1999

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, and a Danish

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for Best Production Design. The movie was financed by the Danish bank "Forstædernes Bank"Forstædernes Bank is no longer a functional lending and savings institution. 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.

References

External links

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''Skyggen'' at the Danish National Filmography

Zeitgeist (production company)
1998 films Cyberpunk films Danish science fiction films 1990s Danish-language films 1998 science fiction films {{1990s-Denmark-film-stub