Three seemingly random plots in the German film “Die Lugen der Sieger” – (The Lies of the Winners) are all related.

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.

Journalist Fabian and his trainee colleague Nadja set out to investigate what the thread is between them.

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.

“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.

The deeper the journalists dig the more they are confronted