Fic: "The Truth About Lying", RPF (Diane Kruger/Til Schweiger), M

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TITLE: The Truth About Lying
FANDOM: Inglourious Basterds RPF (Diane Kruger/Til Schweiger, hints of Daniel Brühl/Mélanie Laurent)
RATING: M
DISCLAIMER: This isn't real. MORE'S THE PITY.

Comments

[kismeteve]

I'm trying to figure out who everyone in the photo is, but I'm distracted by Thomas Kretschmann. ROWR.

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For your consideration, I present:

(L to R): Til Schweiger, Diane Kruger, Heike Makatsch, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alexandra Maria Lara, Daniel Brühl and Heino Ferch. The ladies sitting on chairs (L to R) are Franka Potente, Julia Jentsch and Nadja Uhl. The handsome gents on the floor (L to R) are Moritz Bleibtreu, Herr Kretschmann and Jan Josef Liefers.

I was going to put a <3 after my favourites, BUT I LOVE THEM ALL.

[kismeteve]

I'm very proud of myself for knowing eight of those actors, and now I need to catch up on the ones I didn't know.

[machiavelli_imp]

I'm trying to figure out who everyone in the photo is, but I'm distracted by Thomas Kretschmann. ROWR.
He can lie on our floors any time he likes, yes?
(Or Matthias, or Til, or Daniel, but preferably Thomas.)

I was going to put a <3 after my favourites, BUT I LOVE THEM ALL.
Compared to their American counterparts, German actors can not only actually act, but also look stunning. I honestly thought that Herr White Shirt on the RHS was Sebastien Koch, but it's Heino Ferch, of whom I had not heard.

As someone who avoids het at all costs, I FUCKING LOVED THIS WOW.
This must be the first RPF involving living people that I genuinely enjoyed. It's beautifully crafted and emotional and for once I'm reading RPF that isn't going to send me to the circle of Hell reserved for shipping men in Hugo Boss and boots. There must be more Diane/Til!

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Sebastien and Heino = basically clones. Heino's younger, though (not that you'd know with Sabastien and his bad self). I just love the German kids. They're so interesting and hot.

Awww and thanks. If I made you think RPF was vaguely okay, it makes up for my feelings of "NOO THIS IS TERRIBLE AND WRONG BUT I MUST WRITE IT ~MY BURDEN~" etc.

Look, Hugo Boss = GQMFs. It's not your fault! ;)

[kismeteve]

He can lie on our floors any time he likes, yes?

Yes, PLEASE.

I honestly thought that Herr White Shirt on the RHS was Sebastien Koch

So did I. (I'm going to use "Herr White Shirt" as a descriptor from now on. "Herr Blue Hat", "Herr Cute Butt"....)

[piecesofalice]

Can I suggest any films? Who takes your fancy (ALL OF THEM)?

[kismeteve]

Heike Makatsch, Matthias Schweighöfer, Heino Ferch, Nadja Uhl and Jan Josef Liefers are all new to me. Except for the fact that I just realized that Makatsch was Mia in Love Actually, and that I read an article about Liefers in the NYTimes a few weeks ago. They compared Tatort to Law & Order, which was enough to make me want it bad.

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I did not notice Makatsch was Mia in Love Actually: I think I finally have another reason to watch that film beyond Bill Nighy.

I saw Matthias the other day in Der Rote Baron, mostly because he has slashy scenes with Til and a group of other young, hot Germans are in it.

I'm sure I know Heino Ferch from somewhere (Die Welle maybe?). This is going to annoy me now. And of course I have to pimp In Tranzit, despite it being obscure and Russian because it has Daniel and Thomas and they both get their clothes off. it's very depressing, more so than the "attractive female Soviet prison guard has good taste in SS-men" storyline suggests.

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YESSS DER ROTE BARON. I bought that the other day on a whim, and enjoyed it muchly.

DOUBLE YESSSSS to In Tranzit.

Heino's a bit of a "hey it's that guy!" like a lot of German actors. I waffled on to kismeteve below about some films and stuff. Spreadin' the Deutschphile-ness, one LJ comment at a time. ;)

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Heike is best known for her role in Love Actually outside Germany (I sound like Wikipedia). She started as a VJ on VIVA, their music channel that's not MTV, and sort of went on to be one of those models-who-act, which is a shame, because she's actually very good. Nachts im Park is one of her "bigger" roles (which also has Heino Ferch in it), but she's doing a lot of in-Germany work which is hard to get access to in English. She also sung a song or two with Bela B from die ärzte:

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Wooo long-ass post about Heike! Heino's great, he does a lot of character stuff. Der Baader Meinhof Komplex is fairly recent and out on DVD in the US, and The Miracle of Berlin is soppy but good.

Nadja Uhl *swoon* She's gorgeous and also in Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (which she's fantastic in) and Vier Minuten. She does a bit of "pretty face, not much else" roles (I LOVE HER).

Matthias is a "hey it's that guy!" and you can pretty much watch anything you can get your hands on that he's in, he's great. He was in Valkyrie (yes, the Tom

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Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
AHA! THAT WAS THE FILM! (Sorry, it's been annoying me all day that I'd seen some of the actors before in I-didn't-know-what.) I really enjoyed that film. Also, the hijacking of the Lufthansa flight is seen from the opposite perspective in Mogadishu Wilkommen, which was one of those made-for-German-TV things (and has Thomas Kretschmann in the main role).

Valkyrie (yes, the Tom Cruise one)
I never thought someone would cheer me up by rubbing in the awful fact that Tom Cruise played Graf von Stauffenberg, but you've managed. See, I'm certain that Matthias played Stauffenberg's aide (since when did an Oberst have an ADC?), and had the role gone to Herr Kretschmann as was originally planned, I would have fainted from the hotness, seeing them on screen at the same time. Yes, I'm shallow. But really, can you imagine them swapping the roles? Tom Cruise in swimmers, ick.