Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

Sinopse

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.

  • 6.7
  • 1999
  • Released
  • 2h 0m
Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$45,000,000.00

Revenue

$4,956,701.00

Keywords
  • #based on novel or book
  • #jewish ghetto
  • #polish resistance
  • #jewry
  • #hope
  • #ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
  • #holocaust (shoah)
  • #world war ii
  • #jewish life
  • #radio
  • #execution
  • #gestapo
  • #waterboarding
  • #nazi occupation
  • #concentration camp survivor
  • #hopelessness
  • #radio news
  • #rumors
  • #pow
  • #forced labor
  • #jews in hiding
  • #water torture
  • #rumours
  • #german occupation of poland
  • #nazi train
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