Directors/Script: Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf
Photography: Ralf Mendle
Editor: Benjamin Ikes
Music: Jörg Follert
Sound: Dietrich Körner
Production Design: Tim Pannen
Casting: Iris Baumueller
Principal Cast: Katharina Schüttler, Jochen Nickel, Thorsten Merten, Thomas Feist, Therese Hämer
Producers: Jörg Siepmann, Harry Flöter
Commissioning Editor WDR: Andrea Hanke
Production: 2Pilots Filmproduktion in co-production with Kunsthochschule für Medien, WDR supported by Filmbüro NW, Filmstiftung NRW, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, nordmedia, Filmbüro Bremen
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Studio Hamburg Young Director's Award 2004
Eighteen-year-old Annika has failed twelfth grade for the second time, barring her permanently from attending the last year of school. For her, there will be no Abitur graduation, which her parents have pinned their highest hopes on. To hide her failure from them, she leaves home every day as if she still goes to school. While this is a time for her to encounter first love, frustration and friendship, she keeps missing the right moment to tell the truth, getting hopelessly entangled in her own web of lies. "Wahrheit oder Pflicht" is the filmmakers’ first feature film, and earned Jan Martin Scharf his diploma from the Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne.