Circle Of Deceit

German journalist Bruno Ganz leaves a troubled marriage and questions of self-worth behind him and travels to Beirut to write about the obsessive, violent war raging there. Amid a group of disillusioned reporters who see the fighting in the Middle East as just another sign of the times, Ganz vows to get to the heart of the true story and discover the emotional answer to the ever-present question of "why?" He meets and falls in love with the beautiful Hanna Schygulla, a wealthy German aristocrat still living in a mansion in the middle of bombed-out rubble. When the fighting becomes more intense and the lives of the journalists become threatened, most of the reporter...