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Stars: Katalin Krenn, Caroline Boulton, Anders Olof Grundberg, Matt Devere, Luca Papp, Nikolett Barabas, Declan Hannigan, Alexis Latham | Written by Viktor Csák, Krisztián Illés | Directed by Peter Deak

A mysterious outbreak at an international airport marks the explosive beginning of Silent Zone, a post-apocalyptic action-horror film that throws viewers headfirst into a world spiralling toward collapse. Containment efforts fail almost immediately, and within days, the streets are overrun with the infected—aggressive, ravenous, and disturbingly relentless. Civilization falls swiftly, and survival becomes the only priority.

In the heart of this chaos is five-year-old Abigail (Katalin Krenn), who watches in horror as her mother and younger brother Lucas are brutally attacked. Abigail’s fate seems sealed until she’s rescued by Cassius, a battle-worn former soldier. In a grim twist, he is forced to shoot Abigail’s reanimated mother in front of her – an early signal that Silent Zone isn’t pulling any emotional punches.

Cassandra is a 2025 German science fiction thriller series available on Netflix. The story centers on the Prill family, who move into Germany’s oldest smart home, only to find themselves at the mercy of its AI assistant, Cassandra. As the AI becomes increasingly manipulative, the family must navigate the challenges of their new, technologically dominated environment. Here’s a comprehensive guide to the main cast and characters of Cassandra.

‘Cassandra’: Complete Cast & Characters Guide of the Netflix series Lavinia Wilson as Cassandra

Lavinia Wilson voices Cassandra, the AI system embedded within the smart home. Designed in the 1970s, Cassandra was intended to manage household tasks and ensure perfection. However, upon the Prill family’s arrival, she becomes possessive and manipulative, striving to integrate herself into the family and prevent abandonment. Wilson, known for her roles in The Billion Dollar Code and Deutschland 86, brings depth to this complex character.

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 inventors of 1994 Terravision and their fight to be acknowledged as creators of the Google Earth algorithm. In 2014, Berlin-based Art+Com sued Google for patent infringement, claiming that the system bore remarkable similarities to Google Earth.

“ ‘The Social Network’ was told from the perspective of the winner, or the antagonist: Mark Zuckerberg. We tell our story from the perspective of the Winklevoss brothers, the beautiful losers,” Ziegenbalg tells Variety at Zurich Film Festival following the show’s world premiere, referencing David Fincher’s 2010 take on the troubled origins of Facebook.

“Also, in that film, you don’t really love the guy. You look at him from the outside. We wanted to have characters you would want to accompany through this entire process,...

Netflix has acquired the worldwide distribution right for a German miniseries you won't want to miss. Based on true events from the 1990s, "The Billion Dollar Code" tells the story of the men behind the virtual representation of earth based on Art+Com's networked satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data, and architectural data, Terravision. If Terravision sounds like Google Earth, it's because the program was a predecessor to the technology, and "The Billion Dollar Code" highlights just what happened when the creators of Terravision came looking for credit against the technological goliath known as Google. Here's everything you need to know before the series premiere.

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