
Jakob the Liar
- released:1999-09-16
- genres: Comedy, Drama, History
- duration:120m
- casts: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter
- Country: France, Hungary, United States of America
- Production: Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
overview
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.