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Wikipedia article
'Learning to Lie' is a German film released in 2003. It is based on the novel of Frank Goosen from the year 2000.
Plot
Beginning in West Germany in 1982, 18-year-old school boy 'Helmut' falls in love with fellow pupil 'Britta'. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies literature and politics in his home town and has a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine on the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.
Years later, in 1989, the Berlin wall falls and the Cold war ends. Helmut is lying in his girlfriend's bed when his old school friend Mcke calls him, who saw Britta in Berlin. Helmut hurries to Berlin and finds Britta, but she has changed and has become arrogant. Mcke tells him afterwards that he had an affair with Britta and that Britta has had a lot of affairs. Worried by this, Helmut begins a lot of new affairs and his parents get divorced at that time.
In 1998, Helmut settles down with a girl who wants a baby with him, but Helmut travels one more time to Berlin to meet Britta for one last time.
The novel
The film is based on the novel 'Liegen lernen' by Frank Goosen from the year 2000. While the novel takes place in Bochum, the film was set in Dsseldorf. The novel has a lot of biographical moments from Goosen, but the story is typical for a West German youth in the 1980s. The novel became very popular through the great '80s revival in western Germany around the year 2000.
Cast
* Fabian Busch as Helmut
* Susanne Bormann as Britta
* Fritzi Haberlandt as Gisela
* Sophie Rois as Barbara
* Anka Sarstedt as Gloria
* Birgit Minichmayr as Tina
* Florian Lukas as Mcke
* Tino Mewes as the long Schfer
* Sebastian Mnster as Beck
* Beate Abraham as Helmut's Mother
* Wilfried Dziallas as Helmut's father
* Uwe Rohde as Uwe
* Andr Meyer as Rdiger
* Jean Pierre Cornut as Professor Mutter
* Heinz Schubert as Uncle Bertram
Crew
* Direction: Hendrik Handloegten
* Script: Frank Goosen and Hendrik Handloegten
* Production: Maria Kpf
* Music: Dieter Schleip
* Camera: Florian Hoffmeister
* Editing: Elena Bromund
References
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