Jakob the Liar

Sep 16, 1999

2h 0m

★ 6.7

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

History

Production Companies

Global Medien KG

Columbia Pictures

Blue Wolf

Kasso Productions

Jakob the Liar Trailers

Cast

Jakob Heym

Robin Williams

Mischa

Liev Schreiber

Lina Kronstein

Hannah Taylor-Gordon

Max Frankfurter

Alan Arkin

Avron

Michael Jeter

Kowalsky

Bob Balaban

Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Lina's Mother

Éva Igó

Lina's Father

István Bálint

Fajngold

Mark Margolis

Herschel

Mathieu Kassovitz

Preuss

Justus von Dohnányi

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