jakob the liar be an underrated movie . i just want to say that before anything else in my review . the movie tell about jakob heym and excellently play by robin williams . jakob be a jewish shop keeper living in polish ghetto in 1944. he overhear a german radio broadcast about russian troop movement . when he share the information with a friend a rumor about a secret radio start spread in the ghetto . jakob start make up story to the ghetto inhabitant he have hear from his ecret radio . this way he bring hope to the people who be lose it . peter kassovitz jakob the liar ( 1999 ) hasn not get a much credit it would have deserve . it a movie about an important matter . it combine comedy and tragedy in a great way . it have a brilliant cast . robin williams be just amazing . this actor and who turn 55 today ( congratulation ) have a great ability to act both comic and dramatic role . he be a great man and a great actor . the young hannah taylor gordon be excellent play lina kronstein and the jewish girl jakob be hide . she be amaze also play anne frank a couple year later . i hope we will be hear a lot from her in the future . then there be also these great while bob balaban ( kowalsky ) and alan arkin ( max frankfurter ) and michael jeter ( avron ) and liev schreiber ( mischa the prizefighter ) and director son mathieu kassovitz ( herchel ) and lot of others . this be a movie that can make you laugh and it be a movie that can make you cry . it show all these poor people live under the horror of war and under the circumstance you can not justify . horrible thing happen back then and now there be movie to show u it all . this be a movie about hope . hope be still there in the dramatic end . hope be see through the tear . isn not that and hope and all we need in the end .