LYREBIRD Cast and Crew Q&A | TIFF 2019

While Joseph Piller was fighting in the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War, Han van Meegeren was selling paintings to the Nazis. By the end of the war, Piller was identifying and redistributing stolen art, and van Meegeren had been accused of collaboration — a crime punishable by death. Dan Friedkin’s engrossing directorial debut, based on this true story, follows van Meegeren (Guy Pearce), an affluent dandy famous for hosting hedonistic soirées, who is said to have profited from the sale of a Ve