Jakob Heym
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Jakob the Liar
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
6.7
1999
2h
ComedyDramaHistory
Director: Peter Kassovitz
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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Cast
Mischa
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Lina Kronstein
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Max Frankfurter
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Avron
Michael Jeter
Avron
Kowalsky
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Lina's Mother
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
Lina's Father
István Bálint
Lina's Father
Fajngold
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
Herschel
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
Preuss
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
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