Tell Me Lies
Rating: 6.4 · 1968 · Drama, Documentary · United Kingdom · 1 ч 58 мин
Description
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Information
- Year
- 1968
- Genre
- Drama, Documentary
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1 ч 58 мин
- TMDB
- 6.4
- IMDb
- 6.4
- Tagline
- Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.
Director
Cast
- Mark Jones — Mark
- Robert Langdon Llyod — Bob
- Pauline Munro — Pauline
- Ursula Mohan — Avant-garde Actress
- Hugh Armstrong — Avant-garde Actor
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Patrick Wymark
- Paul Scofield
- Barry Stanton — Film Editor 1
- Henry Woolf — Film Editor 2
- Glenda Jackson — Glenda
- John Hussey — English Actor Playing American Embassy Official
- Tom Driberg — Party Guest
- Ivor Seward Richard — Party Guest
- Kingsley Amis — Party Guest
- Reginald Paget — Party Guest
- Peregrine Worsthorne — Party Guest
- Michael Williams — Party Guest
- Marjie Lawrence — Party Guest
- Leon Lissek — Party Guest