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The Man Who Lies (1968)
Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Overview
A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man’s sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man’s story.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Jean-Louis Trintignant | Sylvie Bréal | Zuzana Kocúriková | Dominique Prado | Catherine Robbe-Grillet | Sylvie Turbová | Ivan Mistrík | Dušan Blaškovič | Jozef Kroner | Jozef Cierny | Július Vašek