Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

Jakob the Liar (1999)

Timing: 2:0 (120 min)

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Release date

1999-09-16

Country

France, Hungary, United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Global Medien KG, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions

Genre

Comedy, Drama, History

Budget

$45 000 000

Revenue

$4 956 701

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Director

Peter Kassovitz

Actors

Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Bob Balaban, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Éva Igó, István Bálint, Mark Margolis
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Scenario

Producer

Steven Haft

Operator

Elemér Ragályi

Composer

Ed Shearmur

Artist

Audition

Suzanne Crowley, Billy Hopkins, Kerry Barden

Editing

Claire Simpson
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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.

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