The Man Who Lies

Plot Summary

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 Jan Robin / Boris Varissa

Sylvie Bréal Maria

Zuzana Kocúriková Laura

Dominique Prado Lisa the Barmaid

Catherine Robbe-Grillet Druggist