Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

Jakob the Liar — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 16, 1999
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama, History
• Director
• Peter Kassovitz

Jakob the Liar — 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