When all hope was lost, he invented it.
Original title
Jakob the Liar
Released
9/16/1999
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Drama, History
Production companies
Columbia Pictures, Global Medien KG, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
Budget
$45,000,000.00
Revenue
$4,956,701.00
Runtime
2hr 0min
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.
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