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Jakob the Liar

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6.7/10 • 382

1999-09-162h 0m

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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.

Directors
Peter Kassovitz
Editors
Claire Simpson

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  1. Robin Williams

    Robin Williams

    Jakob Heym

  2. Liev Schreiber

    Liev Schreiber

    Mischa

  3. Hannah Taylor-Gordon

    Hannah Taylor-Gordon

    Lina Kronstein

  4. Alan Arkin

    Alan Arkin

    Max Frankfurter

  5. Michael Jeter

    Michael Jeter

    Avron

  6. Bob Balaban

    Bob Balaban

    Kowalsky

  7. Armin Mueller-Stahl

    Armin Mueller-Stahl

    Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum

  8. Éva Igó

    Éva Igó

    Lina's Mother

  9. István Bálint

    István Bálint

    Lina's Father

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$45,000,000.00
Revenue
$4,956,701.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookjewish ghettopolish resistancejewryhopess (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)world war iijewish liferadioexecutiongestapowaterboardingnazi occupationconcentration camp survivorhopelessnessradio newsrumorspowforced laborjews in hidingwater torturerumoursgerman occupation of polandnazi train