Jakob the Liar
1999 · 2h 0m · Comedy, Drama, History · France, Hungary · Rated PG-13 (US)
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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.
Directed by
Peter KassovitzBased on the novel by
Jurek Becker6.6Smart score
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based on novel or bookconcentration camp survivorexecutionforced laborgerman occupation of polandgestapoholocaust (shoah)hopehopelessnessjewish ghettojewish lifejewryjews in hidingnazi occupationpolish resistancepowradioradio newsrumorsrumoursss (nazi schutzstaffel)waterboardingwater tortureworld war ii
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