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Jun 18, 2015 · The Lies of the Victors: Directed by Christoph Hochhäusler. With Florian David Fitz, Horst Kotterba, Lilith Stangenberg, Ursina Lardi. Through a complex and rewarding game of connect-the-dots, the film explores that gray area where investigative journalism meets the murky world of political lobbyists who are seeking the dominance of big business over government policy.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Christoph Hochhäusler
- 2015-06-18
Watch The Lies of the Victors (2014) Trailer on The Match Factory When a controversial story falls apart after the informant backs out, renowned investigativ...
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Reminiscent of the political thrillers of the 1970s, The Lies of Victors tells the story of journalist Fabian Groys who discoversa much bigger scandal while investigating the army’s treatment of disabled soldiers. The film premiered at last year’s Rome Film Festival and has earned acclaim at international festivals.
Oct 18, 2014 · An engaging, if never fully engrossing, conspiracy thriller where two dogged journos take on Germany’s vast military-industrial complex, Christoph Hochhausler ’s The Lies of Victors ( Die ...
Oct 27, 2014 · Insidious lobbyists and their manipulative skills are the target of Christoph Hochhaeusler’s dense political thriller, “The Lies of the Victors.”. Although the film is too crammed with plot ...
Thriller, Drama. 112. CAUTION. Genre conventions are retooled in Christoph Hochhäusler’s fifth feature, a political thriller engineered with all the slick ingenuity of Berlin’s glass and steel business districts. Corruption in those high places of late neoliberalism has rarely been rendered as cleverly and sexily as this.
Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was ...
