Queye TV Born to Fake
Documentary
Born to Fake
2026
1:32
★ 0
In 1996, one of the biggest media scandals in German history shook the public: Michael Born, a self-made journalist, had faked over twenty reports for the newly established private television station between 1990 and 1996. Some seemed amateurish, others dealt with absurd topics: child labor for IKEA in India, drug addicts licking toads to get high, and the Ku Klux Klan in the Eifel region were just some of his numerous fabrications. How did it come to this? Was Michael Born an enlightened figure who subversively exposed the tabloid system, a victim of the system, or simply a bumbling fraud? Film traces Michael Born's footsteps. Put together from hundreds of hours of raw material and the memories of former companions, an incredible story of forgery emerges. A media-theoretical film about levels of reality, fake news, and the question: Why do we actually believe what we see?

Cast

Michael Born

Self

Roland Berger

Self

Martin Lettmayer

Self

Dr. Gabriele Schuster

Self

Thomas Pritzl

Self

Crew

Erec Brehmer

Director

Benjamin Rost

Director

Benjamin Rost

Author

Erec Brehmer

Author

Mark Szilágyi

Producer

Pius Neumaier

Director of Photography

Julian Krubasik

Director of Photography

Erec Brehmer

Editor

Alexander Vičar

Music

Benjamin Rost

Sound Recordist

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