| 1981 | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ricardo Trogi |
| Produced by | Nicole Robert |
| Written by | Ricardo Trogi |
| Starring | Jean-Carl Boucher Claudio Colangelo Sandrine Bisson |
| Music by | Frédéric Bégin |
| Editing by | Yvann Thibaudeau |
| Release date(s) | September 4, 2009 |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
1981, longer title 1981: Lannée ou je suis devenue un menteur (1981: The Year I Became a Liar) is a 2009 Canadian French language film from Quebec, a drama comedy written and directed by Ricardo Trogi. It was released on 4 September 2009. The film is autobiographical about the youth years of the director as told by him during the film.
Ricardo (played by Jean-Carl Boucher), 11 years, arrives to a school where he feels completely foreign. With the aim of integrating, he befriends a group of youth named "K-Way rouges" (the K-Way Reds) composed of Jérôme (Gabriel Maillé), Marchand (Dany Bouchard) and Plante (Léo Caron) from the school and tries to woo and impress the beautiful Anne Tremblay (played by Élizabeth Adam). In the process he has to lie his way all through.