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Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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 as Jakob Heym
- Liev Schreiber as Mischa
- Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Lina Kronstein
- Alan Arkin as Max Frankfurter
- Michael Jeter as Avron
- Bob Balaban as Kowalsky
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
- Éva Igó as Lina's Mother
- István Bálint as Lina's Father
- Mark Margolis as Fajngold
- Mathieu Kassovitz as Herschel
- Justus von Dohnányi as Preuss
Details
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Released
- September 16, 1999
- Runtime
- 2h
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Studio
- Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures and Blue Wolf
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.7 / 10 from 421 votes
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