Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.
19992h 0minComedy MoviesEnglish
6.7

Plot

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.

WriterJurek Becker
DirectorPeter Kassovitz
ActorRobin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon
CountryFrance
ProductionGlobal Medien KG