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Jakob the Liar (1999)
Directed by Peter Kassovitz
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
Comedy, Drama, History · 2h 00m
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.
Cast
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
I
István Bálint
Lina's Father
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
Crew
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Screenplay
- Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
- Novel
- Jurek Becker
- Director of Photography
- Elemér Ragályi
- Original Music Composer
- Edward Shearmur
- Editor
- Claire Simpson
- Producer
- Steven Haft, Marsha Garces Williams
Details
- Release date
- 1999-09-16
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany
- Production
- Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
- Budget
- $45,000,000
- Box office
- $4,956,701