Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

Infobox Film
name = Jakob the Liar


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director = Peter Kassovitz
producer = Steven Haft
Marsha Garces Williams
writer = Jurek Becker (novel)
Peter Kassovitz &
Didier Decoin (screenplay)
starring = Robin Williams,
Alan Arkin,
Liev Schreiber,
Hannah Taylor-Gordon,
Bob Balaban
music = Edward Shearmur
cinematography = Elemér Ragályi
editing = Claire Simpson
distributor = Sony Pictures Entertainment
released = September 24, 1999
runtime = 120 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
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amg_id = 1:180793
imdb_id = 0120716

"Jakob the Liar" is a 1999 black comedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban.

The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in Poland, in the times of the Holocaust. The movie is based on the book by Jurek Becker about World War II Jewish Ghetto life. It's also a remake of the German DEFA film from 1975.

Plot

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommandant, 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. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants. The Germans learn of the mythical radio, however, and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.

See also

*The Novel, on which the film is based.
*List of Holocaust films

External links

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