‘Girl You Know It’s True’ featuring an original score by Segun Akinola will premiere in German cinemas the 21st December. The Milli Vanilli biopic is directed by award-winning filmmaker Simon Verhoeven, produced by Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann and stars Tijan Njie, Elan Ben Ali, Matthias Schweighöfer, Bella Dayne, Graham Rogers, Ashley Dowds and Tijan Marei.
‘The film is centered around the true story of the notorious scandal involving dancers Robert Pilatus’ and Fabrice Morvan’s rise to fame in the late 1980s as pop sensation Milli Vanilli. Orchestrated by music producer Frank Farian, they became global stars with three No. 1 hits in the US. But only a small circle of insiders know that the duo is not singing but lip syncing to the voices of two other artists. At the height of their fame, Milli Vanilli win the Grammy Award but the situation behind the scenes escalates and the pressure on Rob and Fab grows. When the truth is revealed, they stare into the abyss while the world witnesses one of the biggest scandals in music history.’