BORN TO FAKE © MSZ

BORN TO FAKE

In 1996, one of the biggest media scandals in Germany to date shook the public: Michael Born, a self-made journalist, had faked over 20 reports for the newly emerged private television between 1990 and 1996. Some were amateurish, others featured absurd topics: child labour for Ikea in India, drug addicts licking toads to get high, and the Ku Klux Klan in the Eifel are just a few of the many fabrications.

How could it come to this? Was Michael Born a whistleblower who subversively exposed the tabloid system, or was he simply a fraudster?

A media-theoretical film challenging our perceptions of truth in an era of fake news and media manipulation, and posing the question of why we believe what we see.

photo © MSZ
  • Genre
    Drama, Family Entertainment, Theatre, Tragicomedy
  • CATEGORY
    Documentary
  • DIRECTORS
    Erec Brehmer, Benjamin Rost
  • DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    Pius Neumaier, Julian Krubasik
  • WITH
    Roland and Ulrike Berger, Martin Lettmayer, Dr. Gabriele Schuster, Claudia Bern and her daughter Marlene, Dr. Eva Hohenberger, Thomas Pritzl, Josef Maria Krasanovsky, and Michael Born
  • PRODUCER
    Márk Szilágyi
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    MSZ Production and Consulting in co-production with SWR
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • CONTACT
    MSZ Production and Consulting Márk Szilágyi
    mail@mark-szilagyi.com
    www.mark-szilagyi.com