Learning to Lie (2003)
- 2003
- ·87 min
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 have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at 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.
- Actors
- Fabian Busch·Fritzi Haberlandt·Sophie Rois·Susanne Bormann
- Directed by
- Hendrik Handloegten
- Genre
- Comedy·Drama·Romance
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Director
- Hendrik Handloegten
Munich Film Festival 2003
- Screenwriting (Drehbuch)
Brooklyn International Film Festival 2004
- Best Cinematography Feature
This movie was not very romantic or funny, but it got one point across wonderfully- waiting for the one who got away will screw you over (and all those eligible human bodies around you). In this case, it's the guy that pines over his idyllic first love...
