Jakob the Liar (1999)

6.7

Comedy Drama History

120 min min

1999

Robin Williams Liev Schreiber Hannah Taylor-Gordon Alan Arkin Michael Jeter

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.