Liegen lernen

Liegen lernen English Learning to lie the physical action is a German film released in 2003. It is based on the novel of Frank Goosen from the year 2000.

Years later, in 1989, the Berlin wall falls and the Cold war ends. Helmut is lying in his girlfriends bed when his old school friend Mcke calls him, who saw Britta in Berlin. Helmut hurries to Berlin and finds Britta, but she has changed and has become arrogant. Mcke 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 film is based on the novel Liegen lernen by Frank Goosen from the year 2000. While the novel takes place in Bochum, the film was set in Dsseldorf. 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. ........

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