Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
6.7 / 10
120 minutes
1999-09-16
English
FR
Actors :
Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Bob Balaban, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Éva Igó, István Bálint, Mark Margolis, Mathieu Kassovitz, Justus von Dohnányi, Kathleen Gati, Zofia Saretok
Description
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.