Jakob the Liar (1999)
“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”
2h 0m·1999
IMDb6.5/10RT31%Metacritic40TMDB6.7/10
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
