CinemaOSMovie · 1968 · 1h 58m

Tell Me Lies

Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.

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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.

Directed byPeter Brook

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 58m
Language
EN
Released
February 2, 1968

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Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Mark Jones

Mark Jones

Mark

Robert Langdon Llyod

Robert Langdon Llyod

Bob

Pauline Munro

Pauline Munro

Pauline

Ursula Mohan

Avant-garde Actress

Hugh Armstrong

Avant-garde Actor

Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft

Patrick Wymark

Patrick Wymark

Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield

Barry Stanton

Barry Stanton

Film Editor 1

Henry Woolf

Henry Woolf

Film Editor 2

Creative team
Directed by
Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Written by
Michael Kustow
Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Produced by
Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Peter Sykes

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