- Members who watched
- 0
- watched
- Lists
- 0
- lists
- Likes
- 0
- likes
Jakob the Liar
1999Directed by Peter Kassovitz2h 0m
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.
- Comedy
- Drama
- History
Cast
- Robin Williams as Jakob Heym
- Liev Schreiber as Mischa
- Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Lina Kronstein
- Alan Arkin as Max Frankfurter
- Michael Jeter as Avron
- Bob Balaban as Kowalsky
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
- Éva Igó as Lina's Mother
- István Bálint as Lina's Father
- Mark Margolis as Fajngold
- Mathieu Kassovitz as Herschel
- Justus von Dohnányi as Preuss
- Kathleen Gati as Hooker
- Zofia Saretok as Neighbor
- Nina Siemaszko as Rosa Frankfurter
- Grażyna Barszczewska as Mrs. Frankfurter
Popular reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to write about Jakob the Liar.