Lisztomania (film) a wholehearted, comic-strip craziness, but for all his lashing himself into a slapstick fury, the director Ken Russell can't seem to pull the elements of film making together." The German reviewer , reviewing the film for "Die Zeit" summed up the film as follows: Another German reviewer, Hans J. Wulff devoted a six-page article to the film, and commented: Leonard Maltin's home video guide gave the film one and a half stars out of four, while the "Golden Movie Retriever" said WOOF!". "Lisztomania" currently holds a 43% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews. Lisztomania (film) Lisztomania is a
Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jacob the Liar (1975 film) Jacob the Liar () is a 1975 East German-Czechoslovakian Holocaust film directed by Frank Beyer, and based on the novel of the same name by Jurek Becker. It starred Vlastimil Brodský in the title role. Work on the picture began in 1965, but production was halted in summer 1966. Becker, who had originally planned "Jacob the Liar" as a screenplay, decided to make it a novel instead. In 1972, after the book garnered considerable success, work on the picture resumed. In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is caught on the