Jakob the Liar (1999)
Released | 1999-09-16 | Drama-Comedy-History | 120m | 6.681/10
Peter Kassovitz (Director) | Elemér Ragályi (Director of Photography) | Steven Haft (Producer) | Kelley Ray (Visual Effects Supervisor) | Cheri Minns (Makeup Artist) | Ed Shearmur (Original Music Composer) | Nada Pinter (Script Supervisor) | Jurek Becker (Novel) | Kerry Barden (Casting) | Billy Hopkins (Casting) | Didier Decoin (Screenplay) | Maja Gawinska (Makeup Artist) | Claire Simpson (Editor) | Katalin Jakots (Makeup Artist) | Luciana Arrighi (Production Design) | Suzanne Crowley (Casting) | Gabriella Németh (Hairstylist) | Wiesława Starska (Costume Design) | Suzanne Smith Crowley (Casting) | Marsha Garces Williams (Screenplay) | Maja Gawińska-Łyczkowska (Makeup Artist) |
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.
Robin Williams (Jakob Heym) | Liev Schreiber (Mischa) | Hannah Taylor-Gordon (Lina Kronstein) | Alan Arkin (Max Frenkfurter) | Michael Jeter (Avron) | Bob Balaban (Kowalsky) | Armin Mueller-Stahl (Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum) | Éva Igó (Lina's Mother) | István Bálint (Linas's Father) | Mark Margolis (Fajngold) | Mathieu Kassovitz (Herschel) | Justus von Dohnányi (Preuss) | Kathleen Gati (Hocker) | Zofia Saretok () |