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Elyas M'Barek (left) plays Romero, Jonas Nay plays Lars Bogenius
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Elyas M'Barek and Jonas Nay will play the main roles in Michael “Bully” Herbig's media satire with the working title “1000 lines”.
The film is inspired by Juan Moreno's book "A Thousand Lines of Lies" about the Relotius case.
As the production company Ufa Fiction announced on Monday, the shooting will take place this summer in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Spain.
The production company had already secured the rights to Moreno's book in spring 2019.
A "modern story of impostors as media satire" is planned.
Director Herbig said: “Similarities with untrue events could happen by chance.
The facts will certainly be twisted so that it is correct in the end!
(Not traveling after dictation, due to lockdown). "
Jonas Nay, 30, (»Germany 83«) plays Lars Bogenius in the film, the undisputed star of a major German news magazine.
His colleague named Romero is played by Elyas M'Barek, 38, ("Fack ju Göhte").
He discovers inconsistencies in the award-winning reports by Bogenius.
With his revelations he triggers one of the biggest German press scandals, so it is said about the content of the film.
The background to this is the in-house scandal that SPIEGEL disclosed a good two years ago.
Since 2011, around 60 texts that Claas Relotius wrote or in which he was involved have appeared in the magazine and on SPIEGEL.de.
In it he had partly invented protagonists and scenes.
Moreno discovered a common story while researching a common story, as he describes in his book ("A thousand lines of lies - The Relotius system and German journalism").
At that time, SPIEGEL set up an independent commission to clarify how the forgeries could come about.
The final report of the investigation commission can be found here:
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