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Rating: 6.7/10 by 366 users

Jakob the Liar (1999)

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.

Directing:
  • Peter Kassovitz
  • Nada Pinter
Writing:
  • Jurek Becker
  • Didier Decoin
  • Marsha Garces Williams
Stars:
Release Date: Thu, Sep 16, 1999

Rating: 6.7/10 by 366 users

Alternative Title:
Jakob le menteur - US
Jakob il bugiardo - IT
Um Sinal de Esperança - BR
제이콥의 거짓말 - KR

Country:
France
Hungary
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 02 hour 00 minutes
Budget: $45,000,000
Revenue: $4,956,701

Plot Keyword: based on novel or book, jewish ghetto, polish resistance, jewry, hope, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), world war ii, jewish life, radio, execution, gestapo, waterboarding, nazi occupation, concentration camp survivor, hopelessness, radio news, rumors, pow, forced labor, jews in hiding, holocaust, water torture, rumours, german occupation of poland, nazi train

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