Documentary | 2023-2024 | Germany
Main data
| Director | Erec Brehmer, Benjamin Rost |
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| Written by | Erec Brehmer, Benjamin Rost |
| Production | MSZ - Production & Consulting Márk Szilágyi [de], SWR - Junger Dokumentarfilm [de] |
Shooting data
| Status | For Premium Members only |
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| Start of shooting | For Premium Members only |
| End of shooting | For Premium Members only |
| Filming regions | For Premium Members only |
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Brief synopsis
In 1996, one of the biggest media scandals to date shook Germany: Michael Born, a self-made journalist, had faked over twenty reports for the newly emerged private television between 1990 and 1996. Partly amateurish, partly with absurd topics: Child labor for Ikea in India, drug addicts licking toads to get high and the Ku Klux Klan in the Eiffel are just a few of the many fakes.
How could it come so far? Was Michael Born an enlightener who subversively exposed the tabloid system or was he simply a faker? A search for clues about Born and what he left to the world, cut from hundreds of hours of his raw material, as well as from stories of former companions. And with fakes that have not yet been unmasked.
A media-theoretical film about levels of reality, authenticity strategies and the question of why we believe what we see.
How could it come so far? Was Michael Born an enlightener who subversively exposed the tabloid system or was he simply a faker? A search for clues about Born and what he left to the world, cut from hundreds of hours of his raw material, as well as from stories of former companions. And with fakes that have not yet been unmasked.
A media-theoretical film about levels of reality, authenticity strategies and the question of why we believe what we see.