Jakob the Liar
- When all hope was lost, he invented it.
- 1999-09-16
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Michael Jeter, Justus von Dohnányi, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Mathieu Kassovitz, Liev Schreiber, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Robin Williams, Nina Siemaszko, Mark Margolis, Kathleen Gati, Zofia Saretok, Grażyna Barszczewska, Éva Igó, István Bálint
- $45,000,000
- $4,956,701
- 2 h. 0 min.
- 6.7/10
- 378
- France, Hungary, United States of America
- Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
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.