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Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar1999

★6.7120 minComedyDramaHistory

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

Peter Kassovitz

Writer

Didier Decoin Peter Kassovitz

Score

Edward Shearmur

Stars

Robin Williams Liev Schreiber Hannah Taylor-Gordon

Cast16

Robin Williams
as Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
as Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
as Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
as Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
as Avron
Bob Balaban
as Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
as Lina's Mother
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István Bálint
as Lina's Father
Mark Margolis
as Fajngold
Mathieu Kassovitz
as Herschel
Justus von Dohnányi
as Preuss
Kathleen Gati
as Hooker
Zofia Saretok
as Neighbor
Nina Siemaszko
as Rosa Frankfurter
Grażyna Barszczewska
as Mrs. Frankfurter

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