Tell Me Lies
Peter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece.
- Drama
- Documentary
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 2, 1968
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Cast
- Paul Scofield,Ian Hogg,Bill Macy,Michael Williams,Hugh Sullivan,Hugh Armstrong,Joanne Lindsay,Eric Allan,Peregrine Worsthorne,Jacqueline Porcherand 23 more
- Director
- Peter Brook
- Producer
- Peter Sykes,Peter Brook
- Cinematography
- Ian Wilson
- Music
- Richard Peaslee
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0063675