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Jakob the Liar (1999)
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew... (source: imdb.com)
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Jakob -
Lina -
Hooker -
Kowalsky -
Frankfurter -
Avron -
Fajngold -
Mischa -
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Herschel -
Rosa -
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Himself -
Maria
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Release Date
16 September 1999
Budget
$15,000,000
US Box Office
$5,000,000
Tagline
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
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FranceUSAHungary
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Budapest, Hungary
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Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American tragicomedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland in the times of the Holocaust and is based on the book by Jurek Becker about World War II Jewish ghetto life. It is also a remake of the East German DEFA film Jakob der Lügner from 1975.
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