Jakob the Liar (1999)
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When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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.
- Released
- Sep 16, 1999
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Writer
- Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
- Studio
- Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $45,000,000
- Revenue
- $4,956,701
- Country
- France, Hungary, United States, Germany
