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Movie · 1999

Jakob the Liar

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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Holocaust drama Ghetto survival Wartime moral dilemma Tragicomic Rumor driven Fragile hope

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Release
1999
Runtime
120 min

Synopsis

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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