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Jakob the Liar(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-09-16
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378 Votes
Time: 2h 0m
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
France,
Hungary,
United States of America
Budget: $45,000,000.00
Revenue: $4,956,701.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Global Medien KG
Blue Wolf
Kasso Productions
Movie: Jakob the Liar
Top 10 Billed Cast
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
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