Jakob the Liar

Name: Jakob the Liar
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Released: 1999-09-16
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter

"When all hope was lost, he invented it."

6.7(396 votes)

2h 0m

September 16, 1999

ComedyDramaHistory

Overview

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.