1999
- Comedy
- Drama
- History
Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Runtime
2h
Countries
- FR
- France
- HU
- Hungary
- US
- United States
Languages
- en
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
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Release dateSept. 16, 1999
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Original LanguageEnglish
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Budget$ 45,000,000
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Revenue$ 4,956,701
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Production Companies
- Blue Wolf
- Columbia Pictures
- Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG
- Kasso Productions
