Taglines: He will make you believe.
Jakob the Liar movie storyline. In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near 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.
Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from “his secret radio.” Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American drama film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Marsha Garces Williams and written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin. The film is based on the book of the same name by Jurek Becker. The film stars Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban.
The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and tells the story of a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym who attempts to rise the moral hope inside the ghetto by telling rumors that he has listening to a radio. It is a remake of Jakob der Lügner from 1975.
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Directed by: Peter Kassovitz
Starring: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Ádám Rajhona, Antal Leisen, János Gosztonyi, Mathieu Kassovitz
Screenplay by: Peter Kassovitz, Didier Decoin
Production Design by: Luciana Arrighi
Cinematography by: Elemér Ragályi
Film Editing by: Claire Simpson
Costume Design by: Wieslawa Starska
Music by: Ed Shearmur
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and disturbing images.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: September 24, 1999
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