Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar (1999)

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

TMDb

6.7

16/09/1999 • 2h 0m
original-title

Jakob the Liar

status

Released

production-companies

Global Medien KG

Columbia Pictures

Blue Wolf

Kasso Productions

original-language

English

budget

$45,000,000

revenue

$4,956,701

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.

production-countries

France

Hungary

United States of America

spoken-languages

English

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