Jakob the Liar (1999)2h00
Comedy · Drama · History
Director Peter Kassovitz
Also directed L'Énigme blanche, Bonjour Tristesse, Make Room for Tomorrow, and 7 more
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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Cast
Robin Williams
Liev Schreiber
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Alan Arkin
Michael Jeter
Bob Balaban
Armin Mueller-Stahl
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