Jakob the Liar

1999

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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Popularity

1.2

Duration

120 min / 2 hour 0 min

Budget

$45 000 000

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$4 956 701

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Release date

1999.09.16

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.