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Jakob the Liar
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.
1999 · Directed by Peter Kassovitz · 120 min · Comedy · Drama · History · 10 frames
Tagline
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Crew
- Screenplay: Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
- Cinematography: Elemér Ragályi
- Edited by: Claire Simpson
- Music: Edward Shearmur
- Production design: Luciana Arrighi
- Produced by: Steven Haft, Marsha Garces Williams
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
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
- Éva Igó as Lina's Mother
- István Bálint as Lina's Father
- Mark Margolis as Fajngold
Production
- Country: France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany
- Language: English
- Studios: Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Box office: $4,956,701
- Themes: based on novel or book, jewish ghetto, polish resistance, jewry, hope, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), holocaust (shoah), world war ii, jewish life, radio
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