{"id":35743,"date":"2015-11-09T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/?p=35743"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:36:57","slug":"my-friend-rockefeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/my-friend-rockefeller\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Rockefeller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; parallax=&#8221;content-moving-fade&#8221; parallax_image=&#8221;32178&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590658442941{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590658369158{padding-top: 35px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590658163787{padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"label-inline dtable--label\">2015 | Documentary | 86&#8242;<\/span><span class=\"dtable--txt\"><span class=\"sep-item\">\u00a0|<span class=\"imdbRatingPlugin\" data-user=\"ur1705756\" data-title=\"tt4465220\" data-style=\"p4\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4465220\/?ref_=plg_rt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/images\/imdb_31x14.png\" alt=\" Mein Freund Rockefeller (2015) on IMDb\" \/> <\/a><\/span><script>(function(d,s,id){var js,stags=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id)){return;}js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"https:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/js\/rating.js\";stags.parentNode.insertBefore(js,stags);})(document,\"script\",\"imdb-rating-api\");<\/script><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>My Friend Rockefeller<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;10px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1590658155403{padding-left: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\u201eMy Friend Rockefeller\u201c is a film about trust, illusions and a deadly secret. Christian Gerhartsreiter, known as \u201cClark Rockefeller\u201d, lived a life of deception; the FBI called it \u201ethe longest-running con in FBI history.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Having been married to a top banker for 13 years, his game ended when his wife divorced him and won custody over their daughter. When Clark abducted his child, the search exposed not only a web of lies and multiple identities but a double murder committed decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>How was Gerhartsreiter able to dupe so many people \u2013 from the cream of society? We collected the reflections of those close to him, his friends left in the wake of his journey: from a Bavarian village to the most exclusive clubs on the American East Coast \u2013 to the grand finale in a Los Angeles court. Here a jury recently found him guilty of murder, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. We interviewed him exclusively together with best-selling author Walter Kirn.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; disable_custom_paddings_mobile=&#8221;true&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1591697969594{padding-right: 70px !important;padding-left: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Press<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/medien\/ard-doku-mein-freund-rockefeller-mit-dem-falschen-rockefeller-wollte-jeder-befreundet-sein-1.3178382\">&#8220;<u>A remarkable film because it shows: dishonesty can work.<\/u>&#8221;\u00a0<\/a> <img class=\"alignnone wp-image-34521\" src=\"https:\/\/looks.film\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Logo_SZ_Spons_gr\u00fcn_CS-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/looks.film\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Logo_SZ_Spons_gr\u00fcn_CS-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/looks.film\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Logo_SZ_Spons_gr\u00fcn_CS-768x184.png 768w, https:\/\/looks.film\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Logo_SZ_Spons_gr\u00fcn_CS.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1642593392247{margin-top: -20px !important;margin-left: -10px !important;}&#8221;]<div class=\"spoiler-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"spoiler-head folded\">more<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"spoiler-body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stern.de\/kultur\/tv\/mein-freund-rockefeller--doku-ueber-den-beruehmten-hochstapler-7072354.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>&#8220;<u>The film illustrates once again that life still writes the craziest stories.<\/u>&#8221; \u00a0 <\/em>stern<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/tp\/features\/Justizia-ist-blind-in-Amerika-aber-stellt-sie-sich-auch-noch-dumm-3453413.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>&#8220;<u>The film is a unique rogues gallery of swindlers, pompous scoundrels and bourgeois, typical-American fools. <\/u>&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Telepolis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Distribution<\/strong><br \/>\nCinephil | <a href=\"http:\/\/cinephil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>www.cinephil.com<\/u><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Executive Producer<\/strong><br \/>\nGunnar Dedio<\/p>\n<p><strong>A co-production by<\/strong><br \/>\nLOOKSfilm, <span class=\"dtable--txt\">BR, DR<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author &amp; Director<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"dtable--txt\">Steffi Kammerer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Creative Producer<\/strong><br \/>\nMartina Haubrich<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;37298&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,191,196,256],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Friend Rockefeller - LOOKSfilm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201eMy Friend Rockefeller\u201c is a film about trust, illusions and a deadly secret. 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