
MOVIE PROFILE
Jakob the Liar
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
★ 6.7 / 10 (426 votes)September 16, 1999120 minEN
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.
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Robin WilliamsJakob Heym
Liev SchreiberMischa
Hannah Taylor-GordonLina Kronstein
Alan ArkinMax Frankfurter
Michael JeterAvron
Bob BalabanKowalsky
Armin Mueller-StahlProf. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva IgóLina's Mother
Mark MargolisFajngold
Mathieu KassovitzHerschel
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