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Jakob the Liar (1999)

Poster for Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Peter Kassovitz
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    Jakob Heym Robin Williams
  • Profile picture of Liev Schreiber
    Mischa Liev Schreiber
  • Profile picture of Hannah Taylor-Gordon
    Lina Kronstein Hannah Taylor-Gordon
  • Profile picture of Alan Arkin
    Max Frankfurter Alan Arkin
  • Profile picture of Michael Jeter
    Avron Michael Jeter
  • Profile picture of Bob Balaban
    Kowalsky Bob Balaban
  • Profile picture of Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum Armin Mueller-Stahl
  • Profile picture of Éva Igó
    Lina's Mother Éva Igó

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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