Circle of Deceit
(Die Fälschung)

Screening on Film

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff.
With Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski.
France/West Germany, 1981, 35mm, color, 104 min.
English, German and French with English subtitles.

Georg Laschen (Ganz), a West German journalist, and Hoffman (Skolimowski), a world-weary photographer, are sent to cover the civil war in Lebanon. Looking to forget about his troubled marriage, Laschen immerses himself in the conflict and rekindles a relationship with an old friend (Schygulla) whose husband has been killed. Shot in Lebanon under extremely dangerous conditions, the film stands as an extraordinary accomplishment in the way it reveals the new types of warfare emerging in the world close-up, conflicts that journalists like Laschen and Hoffmann were unaccustomed to covering.