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Jakob the Liar
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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“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
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Jakob the Liar (1999) ORIGINAL TRAILER
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- Sep 16, 1999
- 2h 0m
- English
- Peter Kassovitz
- Didier Decoin, Jurek Becker, Peter Kassovitz
- Released
- $45.0M
- $5.0M
Global Medien KG
Blue WolfKasso Productions
