Jakob the Liar
MovieTitle | Jakob the Liar |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Sep 16, 1999 |
Genre | Comedy, Drama, History |
Director | Peter Kassovitz |
Production country | France, Hungary, United States of America |
Production companies | Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions |
Budget | $45,000,000 |
Revenue | $4,956,701 |
Run time | 120 min. |
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.