In Circle of Deceit Schlöndorff deftly mixes the personal and the political to great effect in a film that stars two of the biggest names of the New German Cinema, Bruno Ganz and Hanna Schygulla. Shot on location, the film drips authenticity in its creation of a dizzyingly complex world within which Ganz plays an experienced ‘seen-it-all’ journalist who has to face up to a series of moral questions when he arrives in Beirut to report on a political situation that is lurching into war.

 

Duration:
108 minutes

Translated title:
Die Fälschung

Languages:
French and German

Subtitles:
Full English

Country of origin:
France and West Germany

Year of production:
1981

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