Jakob the Liar (1999)
16/09/1999
Comedy, Drama, History
2h 0m
- 67% (375 votes)
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When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Overview
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
- Peter KassovitzDirector
- Didier DecoinScreenplay
- Marsha Garces WilliamsScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$45,000,000
Revenue
$4,956,701
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- jewish ghetto
- polish resistance
- jewry
- hope
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- jewish life
- radio
- execution
- gestapo
- waterboarding
- nazi occupation
- concentration camp survivor
- hopelessness
- radio news
- rumors
- pow
- forced labor
- jews in hiding
- water torture
- rumours
- german occupation of poland
- nazi train
Top Billed Cast
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
István Bálint
Lina's Father
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
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