Jakob the Liar (1999)

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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.

• Release Date: 1999-09-16
• Runtime: 2h 0min
• Production Company: Global Medien KG
• Production Country: France, Hungary, United States of America, Germany
• Director: Peter Kassovitz
• Writers: Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz.