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Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

1999 · PG-13 · 2h

Directed by Peter Kassovitz

6.7

TMDB audience score
426 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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

  • István Bálint
    Lina's Father

  • Mark Margolis
    Fajngold

  • Mathieu Kassovitz
    Herschel

  • Justus von Dohnányi
    Preuss

  • Kathleen Gati
    Hooker

  • Zofia Saretok
    Neighbor

  • Nina Siemaszko
    Rosa Frankfurter

  • Grażyna Barszczewska
    Mrs. Frankfurter