Jakob the Liar
Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

September 16, 1999120 min6.7EN
ComedyDramaHistory

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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