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Join us for a screening and discussion of The Lies of the Victors (2014; Die Lügen der Sieger) by Christoph Hochhäusler on September 19th at 8pm (MLB Lecture Room 2). Screenwriter Ulrich Peltzer will be joined for the discussion by Bastian Obermayer, Knight-Wallace Fellow from the Süddeutsche Zeitung who helped break the Panama Papers. Johannes von Moltke, Chair of German and SAC, will moderate.
The Lies of Victors is a tight-knit thriller that takes place at the intersection of politics, finance capital and the world of journalism. Told in stunning images captured by Reinhold Vorschneider’s roaming camera, the film follows the exploits of investigative journalist Fabian Groys as he becomes sucked into a story of corruption and manipulation that threatens to devour him and his career.
Christoph Hochhäusler, whose previous films include Milchwald (This Very Moment, 2003), Falscher Bekenner (Low Profile, 2005) and Unter Dir die Stadt (The City Below, 2010), has been at the forefront of contemporary German cinema as member of the “Berlin School” and co-editor of the influential journal Revolver. With Lies of Victors, Hochhäusler joins a trend of many fellow Berlin-School-Filmmakers who have begun to explore the and revise the conventions of Hollywood and genre filmmaking – which receive a cinephile nod in Lies when we see Bogart making a phone call in the Hollywood reporter film Deadline USA (1952) declaring “That’s the Press, Baby!”
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, and the Screenwriting Program. For questions, please contact Gitta Killough (bkohlerk@umich.edu).
The Lies of Victors is a tight-knit thriller that takes place at the intersection of politics, finance capital and the world of journalism. Told in stunning images captured by Reinhold Vorschneider’s roaming camera, the film follows the exploits of investigative journalist Fabian Groys as he becomes sucked into a story of corruption and manipulation that threatens to devour him and his career.
Christoph Hochhäusler, whose previous films include Milchwald (This Very Moment, 2003), Falscher Bekenner (Low Profile, 2005) and Unter Dir die Stadt (The City Below, 2010), has been at the forefront of contemporary German cinema as member of the “Berlin School” and co-editor of the influential journal Revolver. With Lies of Victors, Hochhäusler joins a trend of many fellow Berlin-School-Filmmakers who have begun to explore the and revise the conventions of Hollywood and genre filmmaking – which receive a cinephile nod in Lies when we see Bogart making a phone call in the Hollywood reporter film Deadline USA (1952) declaring “That’s the Press, Baby!”
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, and the Screenwriting Program. For questions, please contact Gitta Killough (bkohlerk@umich.edu).
| Building: | Modern Languages Building |
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| Event Type: | Film Screening |
| Tags: | European, Film, German, International, Literature |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Germanic Languages & Literatures, Department of Film, Television, and Media, Language Resource Center |
