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Director
Peter KassovitzScreenplay
Didier DecoinPeter Kassovitz
Jakob the Liar 1999
Comedy/ Drama/ History/
BUDGET - $45,000,000
Status - Released
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Overview
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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