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.
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Cast
16 people
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Known for
Dead Poets Society
Jumanji
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Known for
Mansfield Park
Viper in the Fist
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Known for
Argo
Gattaca
Michael Jeter
Avron
Known for
The Green Mile
Jurassic Park III
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Known for
Isle of Dogs
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Known for
Eastern Promises
The Thirteenth Floor
Éva Igó
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Also in
Woyzeck
The Day before Yesterday
István Bálint
Lina's Father
Also in
Tscherwonez
Hunter
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
Known for
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
Known for
Amélie
The Wolf's Call
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
Known for
Dear Child
The Experiment
Peter Kassovitz Director · Didier Decoin Screenplay Jurek Becker Author
Worldwide gross $5M · Budget $45M · United States release September 16, 1999
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Budget
$45,000,000
Worldwide gross
$4,956,701
Gross vs. budget
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Production
Global Medien KG
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Studio
Blue Wolf
Production
Kasso Productions
Production
Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG
Production
Kasso Inc. Productions
Production
France · Hungary · United States · Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 16, 1999
Theatrical
France
October 20, 1999 · Theatrical
Germany
October 28, 1999 · Theatrical
Italy
November 19, 1999 · Theatrical
Portugal
November 11, 1999 · Limited theatrical
South Korea
September 23, 2000 · Theatrical
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