Jakob the Liar
- Comedy
- Drama
- History
9/16/1999
120
PG-13
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.
- Director:
- Revenue:
- $4,956,701
- Budget:
- $45,000,000
- based on novel or book
- jewish ghetto
- polish resistance
- jewry
- hope
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- world war ii
- jewish life
- radio
- execution
- gestapo
- waterboarding
- nazi occupation
- concentration camp survivor
- hopelessness
- radio news
- rumors
- pow
- forced labor
- jews in hiding
- holocaust
- water torture
- rumours
- german-occupied poland
- nazi train