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Tell Me Lies

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

6.4(11)19681h 58m1

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.

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Released
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Language
English
  • vietnam
  • protest
  • musical

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Director

Peter Brook

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical2 Feb 1968
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalRestoration10 Oct 2012
  • JapanJP

    • Digital / OTTR15+25 Aug 2018

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Tell Me Lies was released on 2 February 1968.

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