Jakob the Liar
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near 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. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life. —Anthony Hughes <[email protected]>
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Actors: Alan Arkin, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Liev Schreiber, Michael Jeter, Robin Williams
Country: France, Germany, United States
