Jakob the Liar

Name: Jakob the Liar
Uploaded: 1999-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 120 min
Description: 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.

6.70
January 1999
120 min

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.

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, History
Release:
September 1999
Production:
Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
Cast:
Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Bob Balaban, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Éva Igó, István Bálint, Mark Margolis, Mathieu Kassovitz, Justus von Dohnányi, Kathleen Gati, Zofia Saretok, Nina Siemaszko, Grażyna Barszczewska
Tags:
based on novel or book, jewish ghetto, polish resistance, jewry, hope, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), holocaust (shoah), world war ii, jewish life, radio, execution, gestapo, waterboarding, nazi occupation, concentration camp survivor, hopelessness, radio news, rumors, pow, forced labor, jews in hiding, water torture, rumours, german occupation of poland, nazi train

Jakob the Liar

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