Jakob the Liar (1999)
2h
Running Time
September 16, 1999Release Date
Jakob the Liar (1999)
2h
Running Time
September 16, 1999Release Date
Plot.
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frenkfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
István Bálint
Linas's Father
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
Kathleen Gati
Hocker
Jurek Becker
Novel
Didier Decoin
Screenplay
Steven Haft
Producer
Marsha Garces Williams
Producer
Marsha Garces Williams
Screenplay
Elemér Ragályi
Director of Photography
Claire Simpson
Editor
Kerry Barden
Casting
Billy Hopkins
Casting
Suzanne Smith Crowley
Casting
Wiesława Starska
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 16, 1999
StatusReleased
Running Time2h
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$45,000,000
Box Office$4,956,701
Filming LocationsBudapest, Hungary · Łódź, Poland
Genres
Wiki.
Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American war comedy-drama film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft, Marsha Garces Williams and written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin. The film is based on the book of the same name by 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 he has heard on a radio. It is a remake of the 1975 East German-Czechoslovak film Jakob der Lügner.
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