Jakob the Liar (1999)
September 16, 1999
Comedy, Drama, History
2h
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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
- Jakob Heym Robin Williams
- Mischa Liev Schreiber
- Lina Kronstein Hannah Taylor-Gordon
- Max Frankfurter Alan Arkin
- Avron Michael Jeter
- Kowalsky Bob Balaban
- Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Lina's Mother Éva Igó
Recommendations
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