Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1999-09-16
- Runtime
- 2h
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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.
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