Jakob the Liar
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
6.7
1999
2h 0m
ComedyDramaHistory
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.
Key Crew
Director
Peter Kassovitz
Producers
Steven Haft
Writers
Didier Decoin
Marsha Garces Williams
Cinematography
Elemér Ragályi
Music
Edward Shearmur
Cast (16)
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
