Watching the finished film, there were "executives who were not showing true remorse after all those years," Morvan said, without naming names. "And it took a long time for them to actually utter the words, to speak the truth. I was like, 'Damn.' Even for me, watching that made me cringe. It was like, 'Yo, really? It's like that? Thirty years later, who are you backing up?'"

But, Korem said, the point of the project wasn't to exonerate Milli Vanilli. 

"In the film, even Fab says that 'we embraced the lie,'" he said. "It's to show the people behind the headlines, the real story of the personal journey of Rob and Fab, where they come from, how this impacted them—and, also, the other people."

Most everybody "kept on doing business as usual," Morvan said, shaking his head. "And we were destroyed to a point where Rob lost his life, and I was able to survive through time."

Pilatus was only 32 when he was found dead in a hotel room in Friedrichsdorf, Germany, of what police determined was an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol.