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Germany: a documentary of the public channel partly "bogus"

2021-03-22T21:10:54.041Z


NDR research showed that this production actually contained scenes filmed with actors. German public television announced on Monday that it had stopped the airing of a film documentary on prostitution, which won last year, which actually contained scenes filmed with actors. Read also: Pierre Ménès at the heart of the controversy after Marie Portolano's documentary “Lovemobil”, also financed by North American funds, traces the journey of young women who, in squalid conditions, sell


German public television announced on Monday that it had stopped the airing of a film documentary on prostitution, which won last year, which actually contained scenes filmed with actors.

Read also: Pierre Ménès at the heart of the controversy after Marie Portolano's documentary

“Lovemobil”, also financed by North American funds, traces the journey of young women who, in squalid conditions, sell their bodies inside motorhomes in the suburbs of northern Germany.

It was very noticed when it was released last year.

Internal research by NDR, which is part of the national ARD network, has in fact shown that this production by German director Margarete Lehrenkrauss

"shows a lot of scenes that are not authentic"

.

"The film is certainly supposed to be based on research carried out over several years by the director (...) but the central protagonists of the film do not tell their personal experience, they play a role"

, underlines the chain.

"Many situations have been reconstructed or staged"

with professional actors or friends of the author, she adds in a statement.

It has withdrawn production from its media library and online distribution services.

The case is all the more embarrassing as this production was awarded the National Documentary Award of the Year 2020 in Germany and was nominated for the German Television Production Award, the Grimme.

The documentary was also selected by several festivals.

The editorial staff of ARD had carried out internal research on the documentary after being alerted by members of the production of the film.

"An impression of authenticity"

The author of the documentary, quoted in the press release, acknowledges having used actresses and actors but claims to have

"nothing disguised the reality"

of what the prostitutes live that she encountered during her research.

“The reality that I show in the film is authentic,” she

assures us.

She said she

"regretted"

the affair but said the channel had never asked her for details on the production.

NDR replied that

"the Lovemobil film does not live up to the criteria for a documentary film"

.

"It gives the audience an impression of authenticity that does not exist in reality,"

said program director of the channel, Frank Beckmann.

By the end of 2018, media credibility in Germany had already been shaken when the prestigious weekly Der Spiegel revealed that one of its most prominent journalists, Claas Relotius, was in fact an impostor.

This reporter, awarded for several of his articles, had

"screwed up"

several of his reports and investigations by inventing characters and testimonies.

Source: lefigaro

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