Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/11/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Ger
Run Time: 108 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Kino
Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship with widow
Hannah Schygulla affects Ganz deeply, in spite of the wall he's built around himself. He suffers a crisis of conscience when he is forced to commit himself to someone--and something--for the first time in his life. The plot of
Circle of Deceit was based on the reminiscences of novelist
Nicolas Born; the picture's realism is grotesquely enhanced by the decision to film on location in Beirut, surrounding the actors with genuine wartime carnage--bodies and all. Originally titled
Die Falschung,
Circle of Deceit is not a comfortable experience, but few will stop watching once the film has started.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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