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Tell Me Lies is a film of genre Drama directed by Peter Brook released in USA on 17 february 1968 with Mark Jones
Tell Me Lies (1968)
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Add to a movie listTell Me Lies is a 1968 British drama film directed and produced by Peter Brook. Based on a play by Denis Cannan called US, it stars Mark Jones, Pauline Munro, Eric Allan, and Robert Langdon Lloyd. The film was shot in London in the summer of 1967 and starred actors under contract to the Royal Shakespeare Company. The film is based on the American involvement in the Vietnam War and was highly controversial at the time of its release.
Tell Me Lies premièred on 14 February 1968 in New York City, and on 15 February 1968 in London. In was originally intended to be shown at Cannes Film Festival in 1968, but was not, due to it being declared inappropriate in the political context of the time. At the Venice Film Festival, it received a special mention from the Jury and was awarded the Luis Buñuel prize.
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A young couple, Bob Lloyd and Pauline Munro see a photo in a magazine of a baby mutilated by napalm and it changes their lives. They ask is London aware, is London concerned?Actors
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