Jakob the Liar
19992h 0mPG-13
67%
405 TMDB ratings
Directed by Peter Kassovitz
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.
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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- Release date
- September 16, 1999
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Box office
- $4,956,701
- Rated
- PG-13
