Jakob the Liar

Name: Jakob the Liar
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 1999-09-16
Rating: 6.694
Cast: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter

1999·2h 0m

6.7/ 10 (404 votes)

“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”

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Overview

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.