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The Man Who Lies

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.

Top Cast

  • Jean-Louis Trintignant

    Jean-Louis Trintignant

    Jan Robin / Boris Varissa

  • Sylvie Bréal

    Sylvie Bréal

    Maria

  • Zuzana Kocúriková

    Zuzana Kocúriková

    Laura

  • Dominique Prado

    Dominique Prado

    Lisa the Barmaid

  • Catherine Robbe-Grillet

    Catherine Robbe-Grillet

    Druggist

  • Sylvia Turbová

    Sylvia Turbová

    Sylvia

  • Ivan Mistrík

    Ivan Mistrík

    Jean

  • Dušan Blaškovič

    Dušan Blaškovič

    Taverner

  • Jozef Kroner

    Jozef Kroner

    Franz

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.

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