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Learning to Lie (German title: liegen lernen) is a German movie from 2003. It is based on the novel of Frank Goosen from the year 2000.

The story

The 80's

Western Germany in the year 1982: The 18-year old school boy Helmut fells in love to Britta, a girl from the same school and speaker of the students. He starts working for the Peace movement to meet Britta. They have a romance. Suddenly Britta moves to her father in San Francisco. He never forgot Britta, but she found a new boy-friend in the USA. Helmut studies literature and politics in his hometown and starts a relationship to another of the girls from his former school, now studying medicine on the same university. He looses this girls because of an affair to her room mate (a girl with a negative way of thinking). After that Helmut started a lot of short affais to different women. But he is always searching for his first girl.

The 90's

1989: The Berlin wall rises down, the Cold war ends. Helmut is lying in the bed of his actual girl-friend, when his old school friend Mücke calls him: He saw Britta in Berlin. Helmut hurries to Berlin and finds Britta, but she is changed and arrogant. He looses her twice. Mücke tells him afterwards, that he had an affair with Britta same time and that Britta had a lot of affairs. Helmut is disturbed. He starts a lot of new affair, looses orientation. His parents got diverced at that time. In 1998 Helmut finds a girl for the rest of his live. But she wants a baby from Helmut, a classical family. Helmut travels one more time to Berlin. He wants to meet Britta for a last time...

The novel

The movie is based on the novel liegen lernen of Frank Goosen from the year 2000. While the novel takes place in Bochum, the movie was made in Düsseldorf. The novel has a lot of biographical moments of Frank Goosen. It takes place in Goosens hometown in the Ruhr area, the film in Düsseldorf. But the story is typical for a Western German youth time in the 1980's. So the novel became very popular through the great 80s revivial in western Germany around the year 2000.

Actors and film team

Staff:

Regie: Hendrik Handloegten
Script: Frank Goosen and Hendrik Handloegten
Production: Maria Köpf
Music: Dieter Schleip
Camera: Florian Hoffmeister
Cut: Elena Bromund

Actors:

Fabian Busch (Helmut)
Susanne Bormann (Britta)
Fritzi Haberlandt (Gisela)
Sophie Rois (Barbara)
Anka Sarstedt (Gloria)
Birgit Minichmayr (Tina)
Florian Lukas (Mücke)
Tino Mewes (the long Schäfer)
Sebastian Münster (Beck)
Beate Abraham (Helmuts Mother)
Wilfried Dziallas (Helmuts father)
Uwe Rohde (Uwe)
André Meyer (Rüdiger)
Jean Pierre Cornut (Professor Mutter)
Heinz Schubert (uncle Bertram)

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