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Girl You Know It's True

2023
Germany / France
feature film - Drama / Music / Biography
124 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Tijan Njie (Robert Pilatus); Elan Ben Ali (Fabrice Morvan); Matthias Schweighöfer (Frank Farian); Bella Dayne (Ingrid »Milli« Segieth); Graham Rogers (Todd Headlee); Stevonté Hart (Kevin Liles); Ashley Dowds (Benny Winkler); Michael Maertens (Markus Klein); Tijan Marei (Carmen Pilatus); Thomas Bading (Karl Pilatus); Ulrike Arnold (Antonie Pilatus); David Mayonga (Brad Howell); Samuel S. Franklin (John Davis); Penelope Frego (Stefania); Romeo Guy Da Silva (Robert Pilatus, age 10-12); David Verhoeven (Frank Farian, young); James Flynn (Gary); Ben Felipe (Georg »Giorgio« Seybold); David Baalcke (Konrad); Nico Ehrenteit (Michael, Formel 1 Producer); Ikko Masuda (Gio); Sebastian Kempf (Kai); Cornell Adams (Andrew Harrison); Ivy Quainoo (Julie Brown); Roxanne Rittmann (Emily); Lina Maruyama (assistant director); Mitsou Jung (Melly); Bonita Lubliner (Jodie Rocco); Lara Mandoki (Nina); Eva Nürnberg (Gloria); Natasha Loring (Lisa); Darlene Tejeiro (Denise Milian); David Chevers (Tom Sacks); Thorsten Krohn (Bauer Johann); Christian Swoboda (Otto Graf); Cai Cohrs (Georg »Giorgio« Seybold, age 14)

Direction

Director: Simon Verhoeven

Assistant director: David Preute; Ulrike Schürhoff; Daniel Irvin Bier; Sophia Kretschko

Writing

Screenplay: Simon Verhoeven

Script supervisor: Dirka Pfab; Gabriella Gobber

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Jo Heim

Camera operator: Yoshua Berkowitz

Assistant camera / focus puller: Robert Günther

Steadicam: Yoshua Berkowitz

Still photographer: Gordon A. Timpen

Lighting design: Christian Böck

Key grip: Jürgen Zarda; Kai Mischka Finnigan

Decor

Set design: Alexandra Pilhatsch

Property master: Johannes Wild

Stand-by props: Johannes Wild

Make-up artist: Alisza Pfeifer; Christina Baier; René Jordan

Costume design: Ingken Benesch

Production design: Heike Lange

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Felix Schmerbeck; Alexander Berner; Elena Schmidt

Sound editor: Christoph Merkele

Sound: Roman Schwartz; Angelo Hopfer; Jacob Ilgner

Sound assistant: Heiko Birkenstock; Simjon Spengler; Peter Brückelmaier; Angelo Hopfer; Marius Mertens; Simon Wolf

Audio mixing: Christoph Merkele

Casting: Daniela Tolkien; John Papsidera (USA); Kim Winther (USA); Christa Schamberger-Young (South Africa); Mathilde Snodgrass (France)

Choreography: Mike Mayr

Music

Music: Segun Akinola

Music based on: Frank Farian

Production

Producer: Max Wiedemann; Quirin Berg; Kirstin Winkler

Co-Producer: Fabrice Morvan; Stefan Gärtner; Frank Farian; Valérie Vleeschhouwer; Simon Verhoeven

Line producer: Daniel Mattig; David Vogt

Unit production manager: Jannis Stahnsdorf

Location manager: Korkut Akir; Thomas Jentsch

Set location manager: Dirk Eberling

Motive location manager: Florian Erhard

Companies

Production company: LEONINE Studios; Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion

in Co-Production: SevenPictures Film GmbH; Mediawan; Sentana Filmproduktion GmbH

distributor: LEONINE Distribution GmbH