Lies My Father Told Me

For the 1960 film, see Lies My Father Told Me (1960 film).

Lies My Father Told Me
Directed by	Ján Kadár
Written by	Ted Allan
Starring	Jeffrey Lynas Yossi Yadin
Release date(s)	26 September 1978 (1978-09-26)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

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 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 had it in Rome's hands within hours.

It eventually became this Academy Award-nominated film and a novella. The story tells of a six-year-old boy who would travel with his grandfather on an old horse-drawn cart through the alleyways of Montreal. The two would call out to residents asking to collect their old junk. The boy's grandfather was religious but his father was not. Eventually the grandfather dies, as does his horse, leaving the boy feeling bitter toward his secular father.

External links

• Lies My Father Told Me at the Internet Movie Database