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Jakob the Liar

Release Date:September 16, 1999

Running Time:120 min

Genres:Drama, Comedy, History

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Cast

Robin Williams Liev Schreiber Hannah Taylor-Gordon Alan Arkin Michael Jeter Bob Balaban Armin Mueller-Stahl Éva Igó István Bálint Mark Margolis Mathieu Kassovitz Justus von Dohnányi

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Synopsis

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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