Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

• Rated 6.7 out of 10
• Movie
• 1999
• 2h 0m
• Comedy
• Drama
• History

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.

Director

Peter Kassovitz

Starring

Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin