Jakob the Liar (1999)
September 16, 1999Release Date
Jakob the Liar (1999)
September 16, 1999Release Date


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Cast & Crew.

Robin Williams
Jakob Heym

Liev Schreiber
Mischa

Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein

Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter

Michael Jeter
Avron

Bob Balaban
Kowalsky

Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum

Éva Igó
Lina's Mother

István Bálint
Lina's Father

Mark Margolis
Fajngold

Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel

Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss

Kathleen Gati
Hooker

Zofia Saretok
Neighbor

Nina Siemaszko
Rosa Frankfurter

Grażyna Barszczewska
Mrs. Frankfurter

Jurek Becker
Novel

Marsha Garces Williams
Producer

Didier Decoin
Screenplay

Steven Haft
Producer

Marsha Garces Williams
Screenplay

Elemér Ragályi
Director of Photography

Claire Simpson
Editor

Kerry Barden
Casting
Media.






Details.
Release DateSeptember 16, 1999
StatusReleased
Running Time2h
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$45,000,000
Box Office$4,956,701
Filming LocationsŁódź, Poland · Budapest, Hungary
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This Movie Is About.
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Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American-made Holocaust film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft and Marsha Garces Williams. It is written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin based on the 1969 German novel Jacob the Liar, by Jewish author Jurek Becker. The film stars Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Bob Balaban. The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and tells the story of a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym, who attempts to raise the morale inside the ghetto by sharing encouraging rumors that he claims to have heard on a radio. An earlier film based on the novel is the 1975 East German-Czechoslovak film Jakob der Lügner. The movie was a critical and commercial failure: it grossed only $4 million against a $45 million budget, and received negative reviews by critics, with many comparing it unfavorably to the similarly themed Italian movie Life Is Beautiful (1997).
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