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Jakob the Liar
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Runtime
120 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
11.06
Director
Peter Kassovitz
Writers
Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz

Jakob the Liar

1999 Rated PG-13 · ⭐ 6.562 · Votes: 290
“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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