6.7/10
Jakob the Liar
"When all hope was lost, he invented it."
1999
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2h
Comedy
Drama
History
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
Starring
Robin Williams · Liev Schreiber · Hannah Taylor-Gordon · Alan Arkin · Michael Jeter
