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Jakob the Liar
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
★ 6.7· 1999· 120 min· Popularity 2PG-13
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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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Release Date: 9/16/1999
Runtime: 120 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Budget: $45.0M
Revenue: $5.0M
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Companies: Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
Countries: France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany
Where to watch · US
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Keywords
based on novel or bookjewish ghettopolish resistancejewryhopess (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)world war iijewish liferadioexecutiongestapowaterboardingnazi occupationconcentration camp survivorhopelessnessradio newsrumorspowforced labor
