Jakob the Liar
movie

When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Released September 16, 1999
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.
Runtime
2h 0m
Budget
$45,000,000
Revenue
$4,956,701
Origin Country
United States
Original Language
English
Original Title
Jakob the Liar
Status
Released
Production Countries
- France
- Hungary
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English
Production Companies
- no logo available
Global Medien KG
United States

Columbia Pictures
United States
- no logo available
Blue Wolf
United States
- no logo available
Kasso Productions
United States
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








