Jakob the Liar

Comedy, Drama, History | 1999-09-16 | France, Hungary, United States of America

6.7 / 10

120 min.

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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.

Global Medien KG

Columbia Pictures

Blue Wolf

Kasso Productions