The Man Who Lies (1968)

6.7/10 97 min Mystery Drama War

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.

Cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jan Robin / Boris Varissa

Sylvie Bréal

Maria

Zuzana Kocúriková

Laura

Dominique Prado

Lisa the Barmaid

Catherine Robbe-Grillet

Druggist

Sylvia Turbová

Sylvia

Ivan Mistrík

Jean

Dušan Blaškovič

Taverner

Jozef Kroner

Franz

Július Vašek

Vladimir

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