Jakob the Liar
"When all hope was lost, he invented it."
1999-09-16
6.688
en 120mComedyDramaHistory
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.
Casting
Billy Hopkins
Casting
Kerry Barden
Makeup Artist
Cheri Minns
Screenplay
Didier Decoin
Director of Photography
Elemér Ragályi
Director
Peter Kassovitz
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
Status
ReleasedRevenue
$4,956,701Budget
$45,000,000Countries
- France
- Hungary
- United States of America
Companies
- Global Medien KG
- Columbia Pictures
- Blue Wolf
- Kasso Productions
