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''Learning to Lie'' (german: Liegen lernen) is a German film released in 2003. It is based on the novel of Frank Goosen from the year 2000.


Plot

Beginning in
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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
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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
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falls and the
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ends. Helmut is lying in his girlfriend's bed when his old school friend Mücke calls him, who saw Britta in Berlin. Helmut hurries to Berlin and finds Britta, but she has changed and has become arrogant. Mücke 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
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, the film was set in
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. 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 Fabian Busch (born 1 October 1975) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1993.Kino 1995- Issues 58-70 - Page 270 "Koch and his buddy David (Fabian Busch) find employment in the services of the KGB, thanks to Lupo (Die ...
as Helmut *
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as Britta *
Fritzi Haberlandt Fritzi Haberlandt (born 6 June 1975, in East Berlin) is a German actress. She studied theatre at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. Early in her career, she played the role of Lucile Duplessis in '' Danton's Death'', with the Berliner En ...
as Gisela *
Sophie Rois Sophie Rois is an Austrian actress. She has appeared in such films as ''Three (2010 film), Three'', ''180°'', ''Enemy at the Gates'' and television programmes such as ''Polizeiruf 110'' and ''Die kleine Monsterin'' (voice). In 2014, she appea ...
as Barbara * Anka Sarstedt as Gloria *
Birgit Minichmayr Birgit Minichmayr (born 3 April 1977) is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin I ...
as Tina *
Florian Lukas Florian Lukas (16 March 1973) is a German actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, ...
as Mücke *
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as the long Schäfer * Sebastian Münster as Beck * Beate Abraham as Helmut's Mother * Wilfried Dziallas as Helmut's father * Uwe Rohde as Uwe * André Meyer as Rüdiger * Jean Pierre Cornut as Professor Mutter * Heinz Schubert as Uncle Bertram


Crew

* Direction: Hendrik Handloegten * Script: Frank Goosen and Hendrik Handloegten * Production: Maria Köpf * Music: Dieter Schleip * Camera: Florian Hoffmeister * Editing: Elena Bromund


References


External links

* {{IMDb title, 0325734, Learning to Lie
moviemess


2003 films German romantic comedy-drama films Films set in the 1980s Films set in the 1990s Films set in Berlin Films set in Germany Films set in West Germany Films based on German novels Films shot in Cologne Films shot in Berlin 2000s German films