Jakob the Liar

Comedy, Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Peter Kassovitz

Status Released

Release Date 1999-09-16

Storyline

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.

"When all hope was lost, he invented it."