- HD 1080
- Runtime: 120m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: France, Hungary, United States of America
- Director: Peter Kassovitz
- Stars: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter
- keywords: based on novel or book, jewish ghetto, polish resistance, jewry, hope, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), world war ii, jewish life, radio, execution, gestapo, waterboarding, nazi occupation, concentration camp survivor, hopelessness, radio news, rumors, pow, forced labor, jews in hiding, holocaust, water torture, rumours, german occupation of poland, nazi train
- Production_studio: Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
- Slogan: When all hope was lost, he invented it.
- The Jakob the Liar is featured in the top rankings of 1999
- #53 in Top Comedy Movies of 1999
- #95 in Top Drama Movies of 1999
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.
