Jakob the Liar

1999

English

6.5

♡ 13

30%

63%

Action

based on novel or book

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

War

Peter Kassovitz Director

Michael Jeter as Avron

Robin Williams as Jakob

Liev Schreiber as Mischa

Justus von Dohnányi as Preuss

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.