Film

Jakob the Liar 1999

120 min TMDB 6.7 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.

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Cast

  • Robin Williams as Jakob Heym
  • Liev Schreiber as Mischa
  • Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Lina Kronstein
  • Alan Arkin as Max Frankfurter
  • Michael Jeter as Avron
  • Bob Balaban as Kowalsky

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