Truth and Lie
1992-12-25 · 76 min · Not rated
Simon, called the Righteous, once saw a beautiful but sad girl behind a frosty window, whom he suddenly fell in love with and set out to search for her to the ends of the earth, where two noble sisters - Truth and Lie - ruled indistinguishable. But how do you find a girl whose name you don't even know where she lives? And can the Truth and the Lie help him if Simon doesn't recognize them? The beautiful queens pose obstacles to Simon, he can ask them three questions and he must find out which of them is telling the truth. However, before he succeeds in freeing the beautiful girl from the curse, he faces a series of trials...
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- Directors
- Vlasta Janečková
- Production companies
- Česká televize
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Status
- Released
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Vladislav Beneš
Petr Kostka
Michaela Kuklová
Marta Vančurová
Jana Hlaváčová
Věra Kubánková
Vlastimil Zavřel
Radovan Lukavský
Nina Divíšková
Petr Štěpánek
Milena Steinmasslová
Jan Přeučil
Tomáš Hanák
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