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TRUTH OF LIE, THE (WAHRHEIT DER LÜGE, DIE)
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“What’s true and what’s not depends on the viewpoint.”
In an underground labyrinth, a writer is holding two women captive: the courageous one and the hesitant one. He wants to make them experience their outer limits, lead them to the “top”. He tortures them in body and soul. However, his methods are not leading to the desired result. His publisher, a shady woman, is pushing him further and further. The torment is becoming more and more bizarre. Rules are put in place – only to be immediately broken. It looks like a battle against time as a stop watch continuously counts down towards zero. What will happen then?
The writer says: “Experiencing one’s outer limits is only possible once you are on the limit. But where is the boundary and where’s the borderguard?”
Nothing is as it seems.
In an underground labyrinth, a writer is holding two women captive: the courageous one and the hesitant one. He wants to make them experience their outer limits, lead them to the “top”. He tortures them in body and soul. However, his methods are not leading to the desired result. His publisher, a shady woman, is pushing him further and further. The torment is becoming more and more bizarre. Rules are put in place – only to be immediately broken. It looks like a battle against time as a stop watch continuously counts down towards zero. What will happen then?
The writer says: “Experiencing one’s outer limits is only possible once you are on the limit. But where is the boundary and where’s the borderguard?”
Nothing is as it seems.
Roland Reber has been working as a director and actor in theaters around the world since the 1970s. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute where he worked from 1981-1989 in Hamburg, Hattingen and Luenen. In 1989, he founded the Welt Theater Projekt (within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural Development of the United Nations and UNESCO) and worked as a director, writer and head of WTP in India, Moscow, Cairo, Mexico City and in the Caribbean. He also has been a cultural advisor to different countries and institutes and taught Acting and Directing in Moscow and the Caribbean. He received the Cultural Prize of Switzerland (1976) and the Caribbean award Season of Excellence (1991 & 1993) as a director and writer. For his direction of the feature THE ROOM (DAS ZIMMER, 2001) he received the Emerging Filmmaker Award 2001 in Hollywood and the President’s Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico, among others. His other films include: IHR HABT MEINE SEELE GEBOGEN WIE EINEN SCHÖNEN TÄNZER (1979), MANUEL (short, 1998), DER FERNSEHAUFTRITT (short, 1998), DER KOFFER (short, 1999), ZWANG (short, 2000), SIND MÄDCHEN WERWÖLFE? (short, 2002), PENTAMAGICA (2003), THE DARK SIDE OF OUR INNER SPACE (2003), 24/7 THE PASSION OF LIFE (2005), MY DREAM OR LONELINESS NEVER WALKS ALONE (MEIN TRAUM ODER DIE EINSAMKEIT IST NIE ALLEIN, 2007), ANGELS WITH DIRTY WINGS (ENGEL MIT SCHMUTZIGEN FLÜGELN, 2009), and THE TRUTH OF LIE (THE WAHRHEIT DER LÜGE, 2011).
Genre Psycho Thriller
Category Feature
Year of Production 2011
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Director of Photography Mira Gittner
Cast Christoph Baumann, Marina Anna Eich, Antje Nikola Mönning, Julia Jaschke
Producers Roland Reber, Marina Anna Eich, Antje Nikola Mönning, Patricia Koch
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 98 min
Format HD, DCP, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Festivals Hof 2011, IFF India 2011, Chennai IFF 2011, Pune IFF 2012, Fantasporto 2012, Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya Sitges 2012, Cairo 2012
World Sales
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Bayerisches Filmzentrum
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 98 11 12
fax +49-89-64 98 13 12
wtpfilm@wtpfilm.com
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Category Feature
Year of Production 2011
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Director of Photography Mira Gittner
Cast Christoph Baumann, Marina Anna Eich, Antje Nikola Mönning, Julia Jaschke
Producers Roland Reber, Marina Anna Eich, Antje Nikola Mönning, Patricia Koch
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 98 min
Format HD, DCP, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Festivals Hof 2011, IFF India 2011, Chennai IFF 2011, Pune IFF 2012, Fantasporto 2012, Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya Sitges 2012, Cairo 2012
World Sales
wtp international GmbH
Bayerisches Filmzentrum
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 98 11 12
fax +49-89-64 98 13 12
wtpfilm@wtpfilm.com
http://www.wtpfilm.com
