Jakob the Liar (1999) - Comedy Movies 120 minutes. Jakob le menteur, Jakob il bugiardo, Um Sinal de Esperança, 제이콥의 거짓말. 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. based on novel or book, jewish ghetto, polish resistance, jewry, hope, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), holocaust (shoah), world war ii, jewish life, radio, execution, gestapo, waterboarding, nazi occupation, concentration camp survivor, hopelessness, radio news, rumors, pow, forced labor, jews in hiding, water torture, rumours, german occupation of poland, nazi train
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Jakob le menteur, Jakob il bugiardo, Um Sinal de Esperança, 제이콥의 거짓말-
Released: Sep 16, 1999
Runtime: 120 minutes
: 4.3/10 by 370 users
Crew: Jurek Becker (Novel), Elemér Ragályi (Director of Photography), Peter Kassovitz (Director), Billy Hopkins (Casting), Steven Haft (Producer), Kerry Barden (Casting)
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.
