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Jakob the Liar (1999)
Subtitles for: Jakob the Liar (1999)
"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.
| Rate | ★ 6.7/10 (416 votes) |
| Genre | ComedyDramaHistory |
| Duration | 2h 0m |
| Country | France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany |
| Release | 16 Sept 1999 |
| Language | EN |
| Director | Peter Kassovitz |
| Keywords | based on novel or bookjewish ghettopolish resistancejewryhopess (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)world war iijewish liferadioexecutiongestapowaterboardingnazi occupationconcentration camp survivorhopelessnessradio newsrumorspowforced labor |
| IMDb | tt0120716 ↗ |
| Type | Movie Released |
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