Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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9/16/1999Runtime
120 minsOverview
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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EnglishBudget
$45,000,000Revenue
$4,956,701Homepage
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A Holocaust film that finds unexpected lightness and humanity in darkness, following one man's desperate attempt to sustain hope through a dangerous lie that becomes salvation for his community.
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