Jakob the Liar
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.
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
- Release Date: 1999-09-16
- Runtime: 120 min
- Country: France, Hungary, United States of America
- Language: English
- Status: Released
- IMDb Rating: 6.69
