Jakob the Liar
1999 · ★ 6.7 · Dir. Peter Kassovitz
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.
- Released
- 1999-09-16
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Language
- EN
- Budget
- $45M
- Box office
- $5M
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Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
István Bálint
Linas's Father
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
Kathleen Gati
Hocker
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Alan Arkin
Max Frenkfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
