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Jakob the Liar (1999)

Name: Jakob the Liar
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 1999-09-16
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

120 min · France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany · Dir. Peter Kassovitz

Comedy Drama History 1999 movies

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.