Marilyn Lightstone: Len Birman

Yossi Yadin Dept: Good thing no one was wise to Gulkin's ways. The film was Lies My Father Told Me, based on the autobiographical Ted Allan novella. He may have been a neophyte, but Gulkin did have the great sense not only to take on Allan's prose, but also to conscript Czech Jan Kadar, director of the Oscar-winning The Shop on Main Street, as well as a sterling if then-unknown cast led by Yossi Yadin, Len Birman and Marilyn Lightstone, according to Montreal Gazette. The recently restored print of the film will now make its world TV premiere Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Vision TV. Following the broadcast at 11 p.m., the network will air the behind-the-scenes documentary The Making of Lies My Father Told Me and ever candid and selfdeprecating, Montreal moviemaker Harry Gulkin had this to say in retrospect about a film that he went on to produce: "I didn't really know what I was doing, but then nobody knew I didn't know what I was doing." The film, focusing on the heartwarming bond between a 7-year-old boy and his eccentric grandfather, was almost immediately hailed as a Canadian classic. It won six Canadian Film Awards now Genies and is the only Canadian production to win the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1976 . And it packs as much of a punch today as it did when first released. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.