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

Writers

Didier Decoin, Jurek Becker, Peter Kassovitz

Released

September 16, 1999

Language

English