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
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