Was it really the way it is told in "Tausend Zeilen"? Director Michael Bully Herbig couldn't care less, because his cinematic treatment of the Relotius case is a feature film, not a documentary. Claas Relotius is called Lars Bogenius here, the glossy magazine to which he sells his largely invented reports is called "Chronik", and journalist Juan Romero (and not Mureno) gets to the bottom of Bogenius. Herbig has taken the liberty of turning this media scandal into his own kind of "Schtonk!".

Michael Bully Herbig

Born in Munich in 1968, Michael Herbig is known as the comedian and creator of the Pro7 comedy show "Bullyparade". He has been honoured with countless film awards as the director of the show spin-offs "Der Schuh des Manitou", "(T)Raumschiff Surprise" and "Lissy und der wilde Kaiser", which also broke audience records in the cinema. He is highly regarded as the leading actor in satires such as "Zettl" (directed by Helmut Dietl) and "Hotel Lux" (directed by Leander Haußmann). And as co-author, director and producer of the border drama "Ballon", he was honoured with the Peace Prize of German Film in 2019.

When the American communist and the Russian capitalist are banging on about Marx and Stalin. When everything is literally "in the clouds" for a woman in a wheelchair after a stroke. When the heavy seas turn the rich passengers of a luxury yacht into poor sausages, and a shipwreck turns the cleaning lady into the mistress of fire and food, then you have the winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival on the screen in front of you. "Triangle of Sadness" is a social satire with humour ranging from Freud to Monty Python.

Ruben Östlund

"Triangle of Sadness" is a satirical all-round hit by writer and director Ruben Östlund. The filmmaker, who was born on the Swedish island of Styrsö in 1974, previously took aim at gender roles in "Force Majeure" (2014), which earned him a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. in 2017, his razor-sharp observations of the upscale art scene in "The Square" earned him his first Palme d'Or in Cannes. In "Triangle of Sadness", Östlund now unerringly puts his finger in the open wounds of affluent society.

What was it actually like with the Sex Pistols? Did they turn the pop world upside down with their screaming rage in 1975? Or were they merely musical mannequins for fashion designers Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood? Did bassist Sid Vicious kill his girlfriend Nancy? And was singer Johnny Rotten an arrogant schemer? After six darkly coloured, filthy, shrill and simply brilliant episodes of the British series "Pistols", the answer is quite clear: maybe! Based on the memoirs of Sex Pistol guitarist Steve Jones, screenwriter Craig Pearce ("Elvis") and director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting") have created a piece of punk zeitgeist.