Jakob the Liar
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.
Comedy, Drama, History
Columbia Pictures, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, Blue Wolf, Kasso Inc. Productions
Robin Williams as Jakob Heym, Armin Mueller-Stahl as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum, Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Lina Kronstein, Éva Igó as Lina`s Mutter, István Bálint as Linas`s Vater, Justus von Dohnányi as Preuss, Kathleen Gati as Hocker, Bob Balaban as Kowalsky, Alan Arkin as Max Frenkfurter, Michael Jeter as Avron, Mark Margolis as Fajngold, Liev Schreiber as Mischa