A Thousand Lines

A Thousand Lines (German: Tausend Zeilen) is a 2022 German satirical biographical drama film directed by Michael "Bully" Herbig. It stars Elyas M'Barek as a journalist who notices inconsistencies in his coworker's reporting. When management dismisses his suspicions as jealousy, he sets out to expose his colleague using journalistic means. The film is based on the 2019 book Tausend Zeilen Lüge by Juan Moreno [de], which centers on the case of former Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius.^[2][3]

A Thousand Lines
Theatrical release poster
German	Tausend Zeilen
Directed by	Michael "Bully" Herbig
Screenplay by	Hermann Florin
Based on	Tausend Zeilen Lüge by Juan Moreno
Produced by	Sebastian Werninger Hermann Florin
Starring	Elyas M'Barek Jonas Nay
Cinematography	Torsten Breuer
Edited by	Alexander Dittner
Music by	Ralf Wengenmayr
Production companies	UFA Fiction Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany Feine Filme
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	22 September 2022 (2022-09-22) (Germany)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German
Box office	$2 million[1]

Cast

• Elyas M'Barek as Juan Romero
• Jonas Nay as Lars Bogenius
• Marie Burchard as Anne Romero
• Michael Ostrowski as Milo
• Jörg Hartmann [de] as Christian Eichner
• Michael Maertens as Rainer M. Habicht
• Sara Fazilat as Yasmin Saleem
• Jeff Burrell as Jack Webber
• Kurt Krömer
• Ibrahim Al-Khalil as Jamal
• David Baalcke as Sören Osterom
• Christian David Gebert as Eloise
• Christian Heiner Wolf as lawyer
• Katrin Schmölz as female receptionist
• Marcus Morlinghaus as André Jung

See also

• Shattered Glass (2003), another film about the same topic