Jakob the Liar(1999)

🎬120 min
📅1999-09-16
🎭Comedy, Drama, History
6.7/10

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.

Production

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

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Cast

Robin Williams
Robin Williams
as Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber
as Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
as Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin
as Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter
as Avron
Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban
as Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Éva Igó
as Lina's Mother
István Bálint
István Bálint
as Lina's Father
Mark Margolis
Mark Margolis
as Fajngold