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Jakob the Liar (1999)
16/09/1999 (FR)•Comedy, Drama, History•2h
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When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Overview
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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StatusReleased
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$45,000,000.00
Revenue$4,956,701.00
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- jewish ghetto
- polish resistance
- jewry
- hope
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- jewish life
- radio
- execution
- gestapo
- waterboarding
- nazi occupation
- concentration camp survivor
- hopelessness
- radio news
- rumors
- pow
- forced labor
- jews in hiding
- water torture
- rumours
- german occupation of poland
- nazi train