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Jakob the Liar (1999)

Jakob the Liar (1999)

Drama Comedy History

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

Release Date: 1999, September 16
Directors: Peter Kassovitz
Countries: France, Hungary, United States of America
Production: Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
Cast: Michael Jeter, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis, Robin Williams, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Justus von Dohnányi, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Kathleen Gati, Nina Siemaszko, Éva Igó

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book world war ii jewry hope ss (nazi schutzstaffel) holocaust (shoah) jewish life radio execution polish resistance gestapo nazi occupation hopelessness jewish ghetto concentration camp survivor jews in hiding pow waterboarding water torture forced labor rumors german occupation of poland radio news rumours