Tell Me Lies(1968)

Name: Tell Me Lies
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 1968-02-02
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Mark Jones, Robert Langdon Llyod, Pauline Munro, Ursula Mohan, Hugh Armstrong

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

6.3

(10 votes)

1h 58m

February 2, 1968

Documentary Drama

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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.

Regisseur: Peter Brook

Drehbuchautoren: Michael Kustow, Dennis Cannan, Peter Brook