1999
6.7 (373 votes)
2h 0m
Genres
Comedy
Drama
History
Production Companies
Global Medien KG
Columbia Pictures
Blue Wolf
Kasso Productions
Columbia Pictures
Blue Wolf
Kasso Productions
Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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.
Key Crew
Screenplay: Didier Decoin, Marsha Garces Williams
Director of Photography: Elemér Ragályi
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Producer: Steven Haft
Top Cast
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
Videos
Jakob the Liar (1999) ORIGINAL TRAILER
