PG-132h 0m1999
Jakob the Liar
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
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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.
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Writers
- Marsha Garces Williams, Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany
- Release date
- 16 September 1999
- Budget
- $45,000,000
- Box office
- $4,956,701
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Cast
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
István Bálint
Lina's Father
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
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