Filmboxd Logo

Filmboxd

1999

Jakob the Liar

Directed by Peter Kassovitz
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.

Duration

2h

Released

September 16, 1999

Revenue

$4,956,701

You´re not logged yet? Do it here

6.7

Rating378

Views0

Likes0

Lists52

Cast16

  • Robin Williams
  • Liev Schreiber
  • Hannah Taylor-Gordon
  • Alan Arkin
  • Michael Jeter
  • Bob Balaban
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl
  • Éva Igó
  • István Bálint

Recommended Films

  • One Night with the King
  • Can't Hardly Wait
  • Speak
  • D-Day: Normandy 1944
  • The Last Detail
  • Bat★21
  • Love Station
  • Last Orders
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Our Time Will Come
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • Anita and Me
  • Beau Travail
  • The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
  • Bones of Crows
  • The Sound of Music
  • The Grey Zone
  • Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
  • A Man Escaped