

Jakob the Liar
Visit website6.7/10 • 371
1999-09-16 • 2h 0m
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

Jakob the Liar
Visit website1999-09-16 • 2h 0m
6.7/10 • 371
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
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsRobin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
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