Jakob the Liar

"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.

Director: Peter Kassovitz

Cast

Robin Williams

Jakob Heym

Liev Schreiber

Mischa

Hannah Taylor-Gordon

Lina Kronstein

Alan Arkin

Max Frankfurter

Michael Jeter

Avron

Bob Balaban

Kowalsky

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum

Éva Igó

Lina's Mother