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[PAST EVENT] Filmabend: "Circle of Deceit"
February 7, 2012
7:30pm - 9pm
Circle of Deceit (German title: Die F?lschung) is an anti-war film directed by Volker Schl?ndorff and internationally released in 1981. An international co-production, it was an adaptation of Nicolas Born's novel of the same name, which had appeared in 1979. The film follows a German journalist sent to Beirut to report on the Lebanese Civil War, which had begun in 1975.
Journalist Georg Laschen is sent to Beirut, where he is supposed to report on the local civil war. His feelings about this mission are influenced by the fact that his marriage to his wife Greta back home is dysfunctional, and the conflict in Lebanon remains incomprehensible to him.
He feels that his comments and his own problems to understand the situation don't really count because violence sells anyway. Subsequently he feels that his reports aren't real journalism and by pretending to be that they can downright be considered deceit (or in German: F?lschung).
After a fling with a local lady named Arianna he happens to kill a man. He realises how relatively easily somebody can get lose decency in a war[10] and even commit murder if there is so much deadly violence all over the place, and how hard or even impossible it is to remain unbiased as a journalist.
Journalist Georg Laschen is sent to Beirut, where he is supposed to report on the local civil war. His feelings about this mission are influenced by the fact that his marriage to his wife Greta back home is dysfunctional, and the conflict in Lebanon remains incomprehensible to him.
He feels that his comments and his own problems to understand the situation don't really count because violence sells anyway. Subsequently he feels that his reports aren't real journalism and by pretending to be that they can downright be considered deceit (or in German: F?lschung).
After a fling with a local lady named Arianna he happens to kill a man. He realises how relatively easily somebody can get lose decency in a war[10] and even commit murder if there is so much deadly violence all over the place, and how hard or even impossible it is to remain unbiased as a journalist.
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