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Lies my father told me
Title
Lies my father told me [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Pentimento and Pentacle VIII production ; a Jan Kadar film.
Published
[Teaneck, NJ] : Ergo, [2009].
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Original story and screenplay by Ted Allan ; music composed and conducted by Sol Kaplan ; directed by Jan Kadar.
Summary
A film about a six-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy, his Russian grandfather, his grandfather's aging horse, and the comic-tragic ambitions of the boy's Canadian-born father, who wants to become rich. Set in the late 1920s in Montreal's Jewish immigrant neighborhood.
Variant and related titles
French title on disc surface: Mensonges que mon père me contait
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 11, 2010
Credits
Original story and screenplay by Ted Allan ; music composed and conducted by Sol Kaplan ; directed by Jan Kadar.
Cast
Yossi Yadin, Jeffrey Lynas, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone.
System details note
DVD.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Historical films.
Fiction films.
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