Three seemingly random plots in the German film “Die Lugen der Sieger” – (The Lies of the Winners) are all related. <br /><br /> A man commits suicide by throwing himself into the lion pit of a zoo, there is black money in the German army used to manipulate the official numbers of injured soldiers and finally a toxic waste scandal.<br /><br /> Journalist Fabian and his trainee colleague Nadja set out to investigate what the thread is between them.<br /><br /> The director of the movie is Christopher Hochhausler. He is one of Germany’s new generation of film makers who studied architecture before attending film school. <br /><br /> “A journalist is a character you might compare to a detective – with him you can cross social classes because he himself is not part of a certain social class. It is part of his job to work in all social layers so for me from a dramatic stand point of view it’s very interesting to use a journalist as a tool for storytelling,” he opined. <br /><br /> The deeper the journalists dig the more they are confronted
