learn to lie (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | learn to lie |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hendrik Handloegten |
| script |
Frank Goosen Hendrik Handloegten |
| production | Maria Köpf |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Florian Hoffmeister |
| cut | Elena Bromund |
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Hendrik Handloegten's 2003 film is based on the novel of the same name by the Bochum writer Frank Goosen , which describes youth and growing up in West Germany in the 1980s and 1990s.
action
On September 26, 1998, one day before the end of the Kohl era , Helmut fell into a puddle in front of a pub. From there, Helmut begins to look back at his life.
The 1980s
1982. Helmut begins his political engagement as a high school student , not out of pure conviction, but to impress the student representative Britta. The historical background ( NATO double decision , Nicaragua conflict , environmental movement ) gives both of them many opportunities to work together. Helmut and Britta get closer on the study trip to West Berlin ; A few months later, on Christmas Eve, Helmut finally had his first sexual experiences with Britta - the two are lovers. At Britta's request, however, both keep their relationship a secret. When Britta moves to her father's house in San Francisco , Helmut remains disturbed. Her contact by letter is quickly broken off because she has a new American friend.
Helmut graduated from high school and started studying. There the always elegantly dressed Beck becomes his best friend. He starts some relationships, the only long-term relationship being the one with his former classmate Gisela, who is studying medicine at the same university . After a while, however, he jeopardizes this relationship because she has a very conventional life plan that does not correspond to Helmut, so that he begins a parallel relationship with Barbara, one of her roommates, who is always negative. He has never forgotten Britta. Helmut begins a relationship with the 41-year-old sports journalist Gloria, but it doesn't last. Meanwhile, he is always looking for traces of his first love. He experienced the fall of the wall in bed with Gloria.
The 1990s
When the wall came down, his school friend Mücke called him - he saw Britta in Berlin . After some searching, Helmut actually found his childhood sweetheart again. However, it has changed a lot. Mücke also reveals to him that Britta had several relationships, including a. with him, and he wasn't the only one at school who had anything to do with Britta. The character of Britta still appears ambivalent in the novel; the film, on the other hand, clearly seems to see in Britta a woman who Helmut has used from the start. She no longer remembers the expensive ring that Helmut gave her a few years ago (“Really?”); she is very dismissive. The disturbed Helmut continued to wander around in the 1990s; meanwhile, his parents are getting divorced.
Finally, in 1998, at the age of 34, he found a woman with Tina with whom he wanted to stay together. However, she wants a child from him. Before that he would like to see Britta again and travel to Berlin.
background
In contrast to the novel, which is set in Bochum , the film was shot primarily in Berlin and Düsseldorf ; the opening scene in the auditorium of the Heinrich-Heine-Gesamtschule Düsseldorf , the university is the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf . In addition to Berlin, the location is an unspecified city in West Germany.
The song at the end of the film is a memorial from Wir sind Helden , otherwise the film is often accompanied by music in the background, mainly with music that is typical of the time in the context of the plot.
The film has been available on DVD since 2004. As bonus material, the DVD contains the making-of and a. Another review of Goosen's childhood in Bochum and an audio commentary by the director and author.
Reviews
“The film, told in an extravagant flashback, underlines the memorial novel of the same name with only affirmative images. Instead of granting the protagonist an identity formation, he looks for the lowest common (entertainment) denominator for as many nostalgics as possible with his sorry look back at an apolitical time. "
“Congenial adaptation of Frank Goosen's novel about a young man unable to relate and the leaden times of the eighties (…) years. After good bye, Lenin! and lights are another highlight of German cinema this year. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Learn the age rating for loungers . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Learn to lie in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ epd Film No. 9/2003, Joint Work of Evangelical Journalism, Frankfurt aM, p. 39
Web links
- Learn to lie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of the film
- Movie review