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Lies My Father Told Me is a 1975 Canadian film made in Montreal, Quebec. It was directed by Ján Kadár and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal. The film received the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film in 1975.

The original story was written by Ted Allan in 1949. Allan, a Jew from East End Montreal, was working at an advertising agency. David Rome, editor of the Canadian Jewish Congress Bulletin, asked him to write a story immediately. Allan thought up a story and submitted it to Rome within hours. It eventually became this Academy Award-nominated film and a novella.

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Plot summary

The story tells of a six-year-old boy who would travel with his grandfather on an old horse-drawn cart through the alleyways in a Jewish ghetto of Montreal in the 1920s. The two called out to residents asking to collect their old junk (a rag-and-bone man). The boy's grandfather was religious but his father was not. Eventually the grandfather dies, as does his horse Ferdeleh, leaving the boy feeling bitter toward his secular father.

Cast

Yossi Yadin as Zaida

Len Birman as Harry Herman

Marilyn Lightstone as Annie Herman

Jeff Lynas as David Herman (as Jeffrey Lynas)

Ted Allan as Mr. Baumgarten

Henry Gamer as Uncle Benny

Barbara Chilcott as Mrs. Tannenbaum

Carole Lazare as Edna

Mignon Elkins as Mr. Bondy

Cleo Paskal as Cleo

Awards

Academy Award nominee for Best Screenplay; Canadian Film Awards – Film of the Year, Adapted Screenplay, Actress (Marilyn Lightstone), Sound; Golden Reel Award; Golden Globes – Best Foreign Film

References

Lies My Father Told Me Wikipedia

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