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Liegen Lernen
LEARNING TO LIE
A new angle on life …
Helmut is a shy, awkward kid … and a bit naïve when
it comes to girls. When Britta, the most gorgeous girl
in his high-school class, finally notices him one day, he
falls for her hard. Then she suddenly announces that
she is moving to America to live with her father, and
he is devastated. After months of writing letters to her,
he finally accepts that she’ll never reply – but deep
inside his heart he is unwilling to let her go. Years later,
Helmut stumbles from one failed love affair into the
next. He’s become more confident, but never does he
come close to realizing that the hurt he suffered at
Britta’s hands and the pedestal on which he has
placed her has made him incapable of committing
himself to another woman … until Tina appears. A
sharp, independent woman, Tina doesn’t fall for the
hustle. She sees Helmut for who he really is … she’s
got him pegged. After two blissful years together Tina
becomes pregnant. Helmut panics and runs without
even understanding why. What he does understand is
Tina’s ultimatum... it’s all or nothing, and he cannot
imagine losing her. In this decisive moment it is to
Britta that Helmut runs. Overwhelmed by the sense
that there is still something needing to be finished, he
needs to see her one last time …
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Genre Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2003 Director Hendrik
Handloegten Screenplay Hendrik Handloegten Director
of Photography Florian Hoffmeister Editor Elena
Bromund Music by Dieter Schleip Production Design
Yesim Zolan Producer Maria Koepf Production
Company X Filme Creative Pool, Berlin Principal Cast
Fabian Busch, Susanne Bormann, Birgit Minichmayr, Fritzi
Haberlandt, Florian Lukas, Sophie Rois Casting Nessie
Nesslauer Special Effects Das Werk, Berlin Length 94
min, 2,530 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby Digital 5.1 International Festival
Screenings Munich 2003 International Awards
German Film Promotion Award for Best Screenplay Munich 2003
With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, Filmboard Berlin-
Brandenburg, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), BKM, MEDIA
German Distributor X Verleih AG, Berlin
Hendrik Handloegten was born in 1968 and studied at
the German Academy of Film & Television (dffb) in Berlin. His
graduation film, Paul is Dead, went on to win numerous
awards including the prestigious Adolph-Grimme Award in 2001,
as well as earning him an invitation to the highly renowned
Slamdance Festival that same year. In 1999, together with
Achim von Borries, Handloegten also worked on the screenplay
with Bernd Lichtenberg and Wolfgang Becker for Becker’s
global success Good Bye, Lenin!. Learning to Lie (Liegen
Lernen) was adapted to the big screen by Handloegten from
Frank Goosen’s best-selling novel Liegen Lernen.
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Fritzi Haberlandt, Fabian Busch, Sophie Rois
(photo © X Filme Creative Pool)