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Jakob the Liar (1999)

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.

Directed by Peter Kassovitz

Screenplay by Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz

DETAILS

RUNTIME 2h GENRES Comedy, Drama, History STUDIOS Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions COUNTRIES France, Hungary, USA LANGUAGES English More Details at TMDB

CAST

Robin Williams Jakob Heym

Liev Schreiber Mischa

Hannah Taylor-Gordon Lina Kronstein

Alan Arkin Max Frankfurter

Michael Jeter Avron