Jakob the Liar
- Comedy
- Drama
- History
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.
- Directed by
- Peter Kassovitz
- Written by
- Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
- Based on
- Jurek Becker
Cast
Robin Williams
Liev Schreiber- Hannah Taylor-Gordon
- Alan Arkin
Michael Jeter- Bob Balaban
- Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Éva Igó
- István Bálint
Mark Margolis- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Justus von Dohnányi
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- hope
- world war ii
- radio
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- holocaust (shoah)
- execution
- polish resistance
- jewish life
- gestapo
- hopelessness
- jewry
- nazi occupation
- jewish ghetto
- forced labor
- jews in hiding
- water torture
- concentration camp survivor
- waterboarding
- pow
- rumors
- german occupation of poland
- radio news
- rumours
Drôles d'oiseaux