Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
19992hNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
- History
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- hope
- world war ii
- radio
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- holocaust (shoah)
- execution
- gestapo
- polish resistance
- water torture
- jewry
- jewish ghetto
- nazi occupation
- jewish life
- hopelessness
- waterboarding
- concentration camp survivor
- forced labor
- rumors
- radio news
- pow
- jews in hiding
- rumours
- german occupation of poland
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 16, 1999
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- english
- Countries
- France, Hungary, United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures,Global Medien KG,Kasso Productions,Blue Wolf,Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
- Budget
- $45,000,000
- Revenue
- $4,956,701
- IMDb
- tt0120716