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Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
6.7412 votes19992hReleased
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.
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Released
- 16 September 1999
- Studio
- Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
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Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
