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Bookmark this pageLies My Father Told Me (1975)
Director: Ján Kádar
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From Time Out Film Guide
A distinctly warm-hearted tale of a Jewish childhood in Montreal in the 1920s. Grandfather, a rag-and-bone man, adheres to the old ways, frowning upon the brash commercial instincts of his son-in-law, and winning the favour of his grandson with his whimsical ways. Some attempt is made to sketch in ghetto life and to draw out a child's emotional reading of an adult world. But too often the film merely begs the audience's indulgence, asking it to register no more than its clucking approval or disapproval.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Ján Kádar
Producer: Anthony Bedrich, Harry Gulkin
Cast: Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeffrey Lynas, Ted Allan, Barbara Chilcott full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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