Jakob the Liar

Name: Jakob the Liar
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 1999-09-16
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter

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When all hope was lost, he invented it.

6.7(396 votes)

1999

2h 0m

ComedyDramaHistory

based on novel or bookjewish ghettopolish resistancejewryhopess (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)world war iijewish liferadio

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.